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Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on the Mozilla Firefox - Search and Auto-complete features.
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Learning Objectives: Use Search, Manage Search Engines, Use the Find bar, Use Auto-complete in the Address bar

In this tutorial, we will learn how to -

Use Search, Manage Search Engines, Use the Find bar, Use Auto-complete in the Address bar


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OS and versions This tutorial uses Firefox version 7.0 Ubuntu 10.04

In this tutorial, we will use Firefox version 7.0 on Ubuntu 10.04
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Search

One of the most common things people do on the internet is to search for information.

One can search for a specific website or for some other information.

Open Firefox web browser. Mozilla Firefox has a number of functionalities that make it easy to search for information on the Internet.

Let’s look at some of the ways.

In the URL bar, type ‘www.google.com’. One way is to search by visiting other websites.

After all, search engines are websites too!

In the URL bar, type ‘www.google.com’. The google home page comes up.

In the main search box in the centre of the google home page, type ‘email’ >> Click Search.


Point to gmail.

In the search box of the google home page, type ‘email’ and click Search.

The search engine brings up all the results.

We see that the top result is for gmail, the email from google.


Point to the Search bar field at the top right-hand corner.


But there is an easier way to do the same thing with Mozilla Firefox.

Next to the URL bar on the navigation toolbar, there is a Search bar field. Alternately, you can press CTRL+K to directly go to the Search bar field.

Click on the search bar and type ‘email’.

Click the magnifying glass icon that is next to it.

Click on the search bar and type ‘email’.

Click the magnifying glass icon that is next to it.


Point to gmail.

We will see the results of the search in the contents area.

We see that the top result is for gmail, the email from google.

Point to the logo of the search engine on the left side of the Search bar. On the left side of the Search bar, the logo of the search engine which has been used to bring up the results is seen.
Point to ‘google’. The default search engine used in Mozilla Firefox is ‘google’.

But we need not be constrained by this. We can choose the search engine of our choice.

Click on google’s search engine logo, within the Search bar. Click on the google’s search engine logo within the Search bar.
Drag the cursor down pointing to all the options. We notice that a drop down box appears with the logos of most popular search engines, including “Yahoo” and “Bing”.
Select “Yahoo” from the drop down box. Select “Yahoo” from the drop down box.

Point to the “Yahoo” logo.

We observe that the logo on the left of the search bar has now changed to the “Yahoo” logo.
Type ‘email’ again in the Search bar >> click the magnifying glass. Now lets type ‘email’ again in the Search bar and click the magnifying glass.
Point to the results shown. This time we see that the results in the Contents area are from the “Yahoo” search engine.


Point to “Yahoo”.

Observe that the results are slightly different from last time.

The top result is no longer gmail. Instead the top result is “Yahoo” mail.

Click on the search engine logo within the Search bar again. Click on the search engine logo within the Search bar again.
In the drop down box, select ‘Manage Search Engines’. In the drop down box, select ‘Manage Search Engines’.

Click on the last item in the ‘Manage Search Engines’ list.

This opens a dialog box entitled ‘Manage Search Engines’ list.

Click on the last item in the list.

Point to the enabled buttons.

Click on the ‘Remove’ button.

The buttons on the right side are now enabled. Click on the ‘Remove’ button.

Click on OK.

We see that the item we chose is no longer on the list.

Click on OK to close the dialog box.

Click on the search engine logo within the Search bar.

Click on “Manage Search Engines”.


Click on the search engine logo within the Search bar again.

Click on “Manage Search Engines”. The “Manage Search Engines” list dialog box pops up.

Point to the link ‘Get more search engines…’ at the bottom of the dialog box.

Click on it

At the bottom of the dialog is a link that say ‘Get more search engines…’.

Click on it

Point to the newly opened browser tab.

Drag the cursor over the search engines displayed.

A new browser tab opens.

It displays a number of search engines that we can add to the search bar.

Do not click on any of the search engines.


Close the tab by clicking on the x at the corner of the tab.

You can add any of the search engines according to your requirement.

Lets close this tab by clicking on the x at the corner of the tab.


In the URL bar, type ‘www.gmail.com’ and press Enter.

We can find specific text which is within the Contents area with the help of the “Find bar”.

In the URL bar, type ‘www.gmail.com’ and press Enter.

Click on Edit >> Find. When the gmail home page has loaded, click on ‘Edit’ and then on ‘Find’.
Point to the “Find bar” at the bottom of the browser window. A “Find bar” appears at the bottom of the browser window.
In the text box of the “Find bar”, type ‘gmail’. In the text box of the “Find bar”, type ‘gmail’.
Point to the first instance of that text, which is highlighted in the Contents area. As we type, we see that the first instance of that text, is being highlighted in the Contents area.
Click on ‘Next’. Clicking on ‘Next’ will move the focus to the next instance of the word.
Click on ‘Previous’. Clicking on ‘Previous’ will move the focus to the previous instance of the word.
Click on ‘Highlight all’ option.

Point to some of the instances of the search text which are highlighted in the Contents area.

Click on the ‘Highlight all’ option.

We see that all instances of the search text are highlighted in the Contents area.




In the address bar, type ‘gma’.

Mozilla Firefox makes it easy to type web addresses in the URL bar with its auto-complete function.

We don’t have to type the entire web address in the address bar. Try this: In the address bar type ‘gma’.

Point to the drop down list with websites that start with ‘gma’.

Choose the ‘gmail’ link from the drop down list.

We see that Mozilla Firefox tries to auto-complete the word we are typing.

It brings up a drop down list with websites that start with ‘gma’.

Choose the ‘gmail’ link from the drop down list.

The ‘gmail’ webpage loads in the Contents area.

Click on Edit >> Preferences.

If we do not like this feature, we can turn it off.

Click on “Edit” and then on “Preferences”.

Windows users can click on “Tools” and then on “Options”.

Choose the “Privacy” tab from the list of Main menu tabs. Choose the “Privacy” tab from the list of Main menu tabs.
Point to the option ‘When using location bar, suggest’ at the bottom of the dialog box..

Click on the arrow next to the drop down list.

At the very bottom of the dialog box, is an option named ‘When using location bar, suggest’.

Click on the arrow of the drop down list to expand it.

Select ‘Nothing’ from the list.

Click on ‘Close’ to close the dialog box.

Select ‘Nothing’ from the list.

Click on ‘Close’ to close the dialog box.

Go back to the address bar and type ‘gma’. Lets go back to the address bar and type ‘gma’. Notice that no suggestions come up.
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Summary: In this tutorial, we learnt how to: Use Search, Manage Search Engines, Use the Find bar, Use Auto-complete in Address bar

This concludes this tutorial of Mozilla Firefox - Searching and Auto-complete features.

In this tutorial, we learnt how to ; Use Search, Manage Search Engines, Use the Find bar, Use Auto-complete in Address bar

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Comprehension Test Assignment


Try this comprehension test assignment.

Change the search engine in the search bar to “Yahoo”. Search for ‘spoken tutorial’. Click on the first result. Find how many times the word “video” appears in the page. Now click on ‘Highlight all’ to highlight all the instances of the word “video” in the webpage.

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