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00:00 Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on the Mozilla Firefox Interface and Toolbars.
00:05 In this tutorial, we will learn about the Firefox interface and the toolbars.
00:11 In this tutorial, we will use Firefox version 7.0 for Ubuntu 10.04.
00:19 Let’s now take a look at the Firefox interface.
00:23 Firefox has all the features that a modern browser needs to have.
00:28 To learn how to use Mozilla Firefox effectively, one should be familiar with each of its features.
00:34 The Mozilla Firefox interface can be split up into 6 distinct areas, namely-
00:41 The Menu bar, the Navigation toolbar, the Bookmarks bar, the Side bar, the Status bar, and the Content area.
00:53 Let’s look at each of these and learn what it does.
00:57 Let's click on the File menu and click on New Window.
01:01 A new window pops up.
01:05 Some people have trouble looking at small script in their browser.
01:08 So, let's zoom into the page by clicking on View > Zoom and Zoom In.
01:14 Alternately, you can press Ctrl + +.
01:18 This will make the text bigger.
01:21 To know which version of Mozilla Firefox you are using, click on Help and About Firefox.
01:27 By default, Firefox displays a Homepage.
01:32 But, to set your own preferred webpage as Homepage, click on Edit and Preferences.
01:39 Windows users please click on Tools and Options.
01:42 In the General tab, click on Home Page field and type: ‘www.yahoo.com’ or any of your preferred webpage.
01:52 Now you can close Firefox Preferences window by clicking the Close button on the bottom right hand corner.
02:00 You can use the Edit menu to search for particular words within the webpage.
02:05 In the address bar, type: ‘www.google.com’
02:12 Click on Edit and Find.
02:14 A small toolbar appears at the bottom of the browser window.
02:19 In the textbox, type the word ‘Gujarati’.
02:23 You will observe that the word ‘Gujarati’ on the page gets highlighted.
02:28 This function is very useful when searching through large text on a webpage.
02:33 Let's close this.
02:35 As the name suggests, the Navigation toolbar helps you navigate through the internet.
02:41 The Navigation bar is the large text box where you type the address of the webpage that you want to visit.
02:48 It is called the URL bar or Address bar.
02:52 Click on the URL and delete the address that is already there.
02:57 Now, type: ‘www.google.com’.
03:02 Press the Enter key.You will now be in the Google Homepage.
03:06 Clicking on the 'back-arrow' icon will take you back to the page where you were before.
03:12 Click on the forward arrow to go back to the Google homepage.
03:17 To the right of the URL bar, is an icon shaped like a house.
03:22 This button takes you back to the default home page from whichever webpage you are on.
03:28 This function is useful when you are browsing from a particular site or a search engine.
03:34 Let's click on the homepage button.
03:36 Remember, we changed the 'home page' to ‘www.yahoo.com’ earlier on.
03:42 As a result, clicking on the homepage button brings us to the "yahoo" homepage.
03:49 Now let's look at the Bookmarks bar.
03:51 'Bookmarks' help you navigate to pages that you visit or refer to often.
03:57 In the URL bar, type: ‘www.gmail.com’.
04:03 Once the page loads, click on the star symbol to the right of the URL bar.
04:10 You see that the star turns yellow.
04:13 Click on the star again.A dialog box pops up.
04:17 From the ‘Folder’ drop down menu, choose 'Bookmarks toolbar'.
04:23 Observe that the 'Gmail' bookmark is now added to the Bookmarks toolbar.
04:28 Click on the Homepage icon to go to the "yahoo" homepage.
04:33 Click on the 'Gmail' bookmark. This will direct you to the Gmail login page.
04:39 You can use the bookmarks bar for sites which you visit often but don’t want to have as your homepage.
04:46 Next we will look at the Sidebar.
04:49 Click on View and Sidebar and then click on History.
04:54 You see that the bar on the left side now has 3 options - Today, Yesterday and Older than 6 months.
05:02 The displayed option is subject to the intervals between the usage of Firefox on that computer.
05:09 Click on the plus sign, next to the Today icon, to expand the menu.
05:15 Choose the "google" link to be directed back to the google homepage.
05:19 See how easy it is to go back to the site that you visited before!
05:25 The Sidebar even has a Search function of its own.
05:29 You can type in the name of the site that you want to search for, in the search box.
05:34 This will then search through your history to find it.
05:37 In the search box, type: "google".
05:39 The "google" homepage comes up as the first result.
05:43 You can make the Sidebar disappear by clicking the small ‘x’ on the top right hand corner of the side bar.
05:51 Next, let's see what the Status bar does.
05:55 The Status bar is the area at the bottom of your browser window that shows you the status of the site you are loading.
06:02 Go to the URL bar and type: ‘www.wired.com’ and press Enter key.
06:10 Look at the Status bar quickly. It shows you the status of the loading of that webpage.
06:16 The Status bar can help you to understand why a particular site is not loading, the time it may take to load etc.
06:25 Finally, let's look at the Content area.
06:28 This is where you see the contents of the webpage you are viewing.
06:33 This brings us to the end of this tutorial.
06:35 In this tutorial, we learnt about: the Firefox interface, the toolbars.
06:43 Try this comprehension assignment..
06:46 Change your home page to ‘www.spoken-tutorial.org’ and navigate to it.
06:54 Then go to the ‘yahoo’ website by using the browser’s History function.
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