Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Firefox Tutorials

I. Firefox is an Internet Browser. Firefox for our purposes is an alternative to Internet Explorer.
Firefox has many advantages, too many to cover in this tutorial.

Let's visit the Firefox home page.

General Info

Firefox awards

Is Firefox secure?

Let's install Firefox to you computer.

II. Look through the Firefox interface.

You can import all your favorites from IE to Firefox easily.
Let's add some favorites to IE first then import them to Firefox


What is tabbed browsing?

III. Let's look at the many extensions Firefox can use.
Let's install some extensions

Now take 10 minutes to visit your favorite sites too see if you can add their RSS feed to your
Sage extension.


The Wikalong extensions allows people to share comments about any and every Web site while you visit. How to install Wikalong

Let's use Wikalong

You could use this Web site Website

Let's work in groups of four and comment on this Web site

What about the Sage extension?
Search through the different extensions by category, read through the descriptions, install them and try them. Repeat this three times.

Hopefully you found this a useful tool for your classroom, your teacher computer, and for your home computer.


Thank you!

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