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|| Narration

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Spoken tutorial on Mozilla Firefox

|| Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Introduction to Mozilla Firefox.

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Learning Objectives

What is Mozilla Firefox?

Why Firefox?

Versions

System Requirements

Download and Install Firefox

Visit a website

|| In this tutorial, we will cover the following topics:

What is Mozilla Firefox?

Why Firefox?

Versions

System Requirements

Download and Install Firefox

Visit a website

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What is Mozilla Firefox?
 
Is a free, open source web browser

Is the default web browser for Ubuntu Linux

Allows you to view the Internet web pages and

Navigate through the web pages

|| Mozilla Firefox or simply Firefox is a free, open source web browser. 

It is the default web browser for Ubuntu Linux, serving as a window to the Internet.
 
It allows you to view the Internet web pages and navigate through the web pages

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What is Mozilla Firefox?

Also searches for web pages using search engines such as

Google, 

Yahoo Search or 

Bing

|| It also searches for web pages using search engines such as 

Google, 

Yahoo Search or 

Bing.
 


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Mozilla Firefox? 

Developed by volunteer programmers at the Mozilla Foundation. 

Visit http://www.mozilla.org/ for information on Mozilla.

|| Firefox  has been developed by volunteer programmers at the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization.

Visit mozilla.org for detailed information on Mozilla.
 
 

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OS requirement 

Works on 

Windows, 

Mac OSX, and 

Linux Operating Systems

|| Firefox works on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux Operating Systems.

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Popular web browsers for Ubuntu

Some examples are 

Konqueror, 

Google Chrome and 

Opera.

|| Some examples of other popular web browsers for Ubuntu are 
Konqueror, 
Google Chrome and 
Opera.

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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 for Ubuntu 10.04

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Why Firefox?

Has a variety of features such as 

Tabbed windows, 

Built-in spell checking, 
 
Pop-up blocker, 

Integrated web search, 

Phishing protection
|| Firefox makes browsing better by bringing together speed, privacy and latest technologies.

It has a variety of features such as 

tabbed windows,

built-in spell checking, 

pop-up blocker, 

integrated web search,

Phishing protection

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Benefits of using Firefox

Provides faster web browsing with rapid rendering of graphics, 

Improved page loading

Offers a variety of security and privacy options 

Offers customization by ways of add-ons and themes 

|| Firefox
Provides faster web browsing with rapid rendering of graphics, 
Improved page loading

It also offers a variety of security and privacy options against fraudulent websites, spyware and viruses, trojans or other malware.

And it offers customization by ways of add-ons and thousands of easy-to-install themes created by users.

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System Requirements for Firefox

Linux Operating Systems such as - 

Fedora, Ubuntu, RedHat, Debian and SUSE

|| Here are the System Requirements to run Firefox on Linux OS such as -

Fedora, Ubuntu, RedHat, Debian and SUSE


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Additional Libraries / Packages for Firefox

GTK+ 2.10 or higher

GLib 2.12 or higher

libstdc++ 4.3 or higher

Pango 1.14 or higher

X.Org 1.7 or higher

|| You will need the following libraries or packages to run Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04

GTK+ 2.10 or higher

GLib 2.12 or higher

libstdc++ 4.3 or higher

Pango 1.14 or higher

X.Org 1.7 or higher
 

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Hardware Requirements for Firefox

Pentium 4 or above

512MB of RAM

200MB of hard drive space
 
For complete information, visit
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.html
|| And the recommended hardware are
Pentium 4 or above with 512MB of RAM and 200MB of hard drive space.
 
 

For complete information on System requirements, visit the Firefox website shown on the screen.

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|| Switch to internet browser:
Go to
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/
 
Point (don’t click) on the green area
 

Click on ‘All Systems and Languages” link below the green area
 

|| Let us now download and install Mozilla Firefox, by visiting the official website at mozilla.com as shown on the screen.
 
Here, we can always find the latest version of Firefox.
  
Or we can click on the ‘All Systems and Languages” link below the green area for more options.

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Point mouse over the  Linux icon across Bengali(India)
 
Point mouse over the Windows, Mac and Linux icons here.

|| Notice that Mozilla offers Firefox in over 70 languages.
 
Here, we can download various localized versions, such as Hindi or Bengali.
 
We can also choose the operating system: Windows, Mac or Linux, by clicking on the various icons

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|| Point and Click on the green color “Firefox Free Download” button.

|| In Ubuntu Linux, first select the location to save the file (by default, the Downloads directory in your Home folder is selected).

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|| Select “Save File” >> Click “Ok” button in the popup window.  
|| Now you can select the “Save File” option and click on the “Ok” button appearing in the popup window.  

This will save Firefox archive to the Downloads directory under the Home directory.

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|| Click on Application > System Tools > Terminal

Type cd ~/Downloads and press Enter.



|| Open a Terminal Window and go to your Downloads directory by typing the following command :
 
cd ~/Downloads
 
Now press the Enter key. 

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|| Type tar xjf firefox-7.0.1.tar.bz2 and press Enter.

For the video, jump to the frame when the download is over. Let us not waste time until the download gets over.
 
Show screenshot of Terminal Window with the commands and the files being extracted
|| Extract the contents of the downloaded file by typing the following command :
 
tar xjf firefox-7.0.1.tar.bz2
 
Now press the Enter key. 

This will start extracting the files required to run Firefox 7.0.

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|| In the Terminal window type
cd firefox
|| In the Terminal Window go to the Firefox directory by typing the following command
 
cd firefox
 
Now press the Enter key. 
This will take you to the Firefox directory.

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|| In the Terminal window type

./firefox
|| To launch the Firefox browser, type the following command 
 
./firefox
 
And press the Enter key. 

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|| Type ~/Downloads/firefox/firefox in the terminal window but do not press Enter.

|| Alternately, you can launch Firefox by using the following command when your current directory is not the home directory.
 
~/Downloads/firefox/firefox

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||Click on Address bar on top below menu bar 
Type: www.rediff.com
|| We will see how to set up the default homepage later.
 
For now, as an example, let us go to Rediff.com website that has the latest news and information.
 
In the Address bar below the menu bar, type:  www.rediff.com

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|| Point mouse over the content
 
Point mouse over links below Headlines.
|| The content on the home page of Rediff.com website is displayed.
 
Now, from this page, we can navigate to the various links to view content in those pages

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|| Click on first link below Headlines
 
|| Let us click on the first link below the Headlines tab.

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|| Slide the cursor over the menu bar and some of the various features like search box and bookmarks toolbar.
|| This is how we can visit websites using Firefox and then navigate to various pages from there.
 
In future tutorials, we will learn more about the Firefox interface and various other features.

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About the Spoken Tutorial Project

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The Spoken Tutorial Project Team

*Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials

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Acknowledgements

*Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project

*It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India

*More information on this Mission is available at

*http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro

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*Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project

*It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India

*More information on this Mission is available at

*spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro

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About the contributor

*This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

*www.desicrew.in

*Thanks for joining

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*This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

*Thanks for joining

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