Preparing for my Firefox Class

Posted by auburn on October 7th, 2007 — Posted in miscellaneous tech, firefox

Download Worksheet

Keyboard/Mouse/Trackpad shortcuts

Ctrl C/Apple C
Ctrl V/Apple V
Ctrl Z/Apple Z
Tab
ctrl F/Apple F
Ctrl T/Apple T
Ctrl W/Apple W
Ctrl Shift T/Apple Shift T
Ctrl L/Apple L
Ctrl K/Apple K
Ctrl Enter following entering a url (w/o www or .com)
esp look at this

Context Menus and Tabs
Context Menu - right click/Ctrl click
open link in new tab - middle click/ctrl click/Apple click
download in osx - alt click
see here for more mouse shortcuts

Security Portion of class
Phishing and status bar (find examples of phishing pages)
https lock icon, yellow location bar and encryption
Clearing Private Data & restarting browser

Extensions part of the class
Assign extensions for them to try out
Adblock Plus
LocationBar2
webmail compose
customizeGoogle
del.icio.us
google preview
lolifox-errorzilla
mouse gestures
stylish
ietab
bookmarklets (maybe with stylish)
Fast Video Download
speedDial
color picker
xippee
zotero
gspace
snap links
cookie swap

Change the default file format in openOffice

Posted by auburn on October 3rd, 2007 — Posted in miscellaneous tech, Open Document Format

Recommended Firefox Extensions/Addons

Posted by auburn on October 2nd, 2007 — Posted in miscellaneous tech, firefox