Firefox/C2/Introduction/English-timed
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| Time | Narration |
| 00:00 | Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Introduction to Mozilla Firefox. |
| 00:05 | In this tutorial, we will cover the following topics: |
| 00:10 | What is Mozilla Firefox? |
| 00:12 | Why Firefox? |
| 00:14 | Versions, System Requirements, Download and Install Firefox, Visit a website. |
| 00:21 | "Mozilla Firefox" or simply "Firefox" is a free, open source web browser. |
| 00:27 | It is the default web browser for Ubuntu Linux, serving as a window to the Internet. |
| 00:33 | It allows you to view the Internet web-pages and navigate through the web pages. |
| 00:39 | It also searches for web pages using search engines such as Google, Yahoo Search or Bing. |
| 00:47 | Firefox has been developed by volunteer programmers at the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization. |
| 00:54 | Visit 'mozilla.org' for detailed information on Mozilla. |
| 00:59 | Firefox works on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux Operating Systems. |
| 01:05 | Some examples of other popular web browsers for Ubuntu are 'Konqueror', 'Google Chrome' and 'Opera'. |
| 01:12 | In this tutorial, we will use Firefox version 7.0 for Ubuntu 10.04. |
| 01:20 | Firefox makes browsing better by bringing together speed, privacy and latest technologies. |
| 01:27 | It has a variety of features such as tabbed windows, built-in spell checking, pop-up blocker, integrated web search, Phishing protection. |
| 01:39 | Firefox provides faster web browsing with rapid rendering of graphics, improved page loading. |
| 01:45 | It also offers a variety of security and privacy options against fraudulent websites, spyware and viruses, trojans or other malware. |
| 01:56 | And it offers customization by way of add-ons and thousands of easy-to-install themes created by users. |
| 02:06 | Here are the System Requirements to run Firefox on Linux OS such as -Fedora, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Debian and SUSE. |
| 02:16 | You will need the following libraries or packages to run Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04. |
| 02:24 | GTK+ 2.10 or higher |
| 02:29 | GLib 2.12 or higher |
| 02:32 | libstdc++ 4.3 or higher |
| 02:37 | Pango 1.14 or higher |
| 02:40 | X.Org 1.7 or higher. |
| 02:44 | And the recommended hardware are Pentium 4 or above with 512MB of RAM and 200MB of hard drive space. |
| 02:55 | For complete information on System requirements, visit the Firefox website shown on the screen. |
| 03:02 | Let us now download and install Mozilla Firefox by visiting the official website at 'mozilla.com' as shown on the screen. |
| 03:11 | Here, we can always find the latest version of Firefox. |
| 03:15 | Or we can click on the all Systems and Languages link, below the green area, for more options. |
| 03:23 | Notice that Mozilla offers Firefox in over 70 languages. |
| 03:28 | Here, we can download various localized versions such as Hindi or Bengali. |
| 03:33 | We can also choose the operating system: Windows, Mac or Linux by clicking on the various icons. |
| 03:42 | In Ubuntu Linux, first select the location to save the file. By default, the Downloads directory in your 'Home page' folder is selected. |
| 03:51 | Now you can select the Save File option and click on the OK button, appearing in the pop-up window. |
| 03:58 | This will save Firefox archive to the Downloads directory, under the Home directory. |
| 04:06 | Open a 'Terminal' Window and go to your Downloads directory by typing the following command: cd ~/Downloads. |
| 04:17 | Now, press the Enter key. |
| 04:19 | Extract the contents of the downloaded file by typing the following command: tar xjf firefox-7.0.1.tar.bz2 |
| 04:35 | Now press the Enter key. |
| 04:38 | This will start extracting the files required to run Firefox 7.0. |
| 04:44 | In the Terminal Window, go to the Firefox directory by typing the following command: cd firefox |
| 04:52 | Now press the Enter key. |
| 04:54 | This will take you to the Firefox directory. |
| 04:58 | To launch the Firefox browser, type the following command: ./firefox and press the Enter key. |
| 05:06 | Alternately, you can launch Firefox by using the following command when your current directory is not the home directory. |
| 05:15 | ~/Downloads/firefox/firefox |
| 05:21 | We will see how to set up the default homepage later. |
| 05:25 | For now, as an example, let us go to 'Rediff.com' website that has the latest news and information. |
| 05:33 | In the Address bar, below the menu bar, type: www.rediff.com. |
| 05:40 | The content on the home page of 'Rediff.com' website is displayed. |
| 05:47 | Now, from this page, we can navigate to the various links to view contents in those pages. |
| 05:53 | Let us click on the first link below the Headlines tab. |
| 05:58 | This is how we can visit websites using Firefox and then navigate to various pages from there. |
| 06:05 | In future tutorials, we will learn more about the Firefox interface and various other features. |
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