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|| Visual Cue
|| Narration

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|| Show Slide Number 1

|| Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on the Mozilla Firefox Interface and Toolbars.

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|| Show Slide Number 2
Learning Objectives:

In this tutorial, we will learn about;

The Firefox interface

The toolbars

|| In this tutorial we will learn about:
The Firefox interface and
The toolbars

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|| Show Slide Number 3

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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|| Keep Firefox browser minimized or behind the slides.
Switch to Firefox browser.
|| Let’s now take a look at the Firefox interface.

Firefox has all the features that a modern browser needs to have.

To learn how to use Mozilla Firefox effectively, one should be familiar with each of its features.

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|| Point to each bar as per the narration.
|| The Mozilla Firefox interface can be split up into 6 distinct areas, namely;

The Menu bar

The Navigation toolbar

The Bookmarks bar

The Side bar

The Status bar and

The Content area

Let’s look at each of these and learn what it does.

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|| Click File >> New window
|| Lets click on the File menu and click on New Window.
A new window pops up.

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|| Click View >> Zoom >> Zoom in

Press Ctrl + +
|| Some people have trouble looking at small script in their browsers.
So lets zoom into the page by clicking on View - Zoom and Zoom in.

Alternately, you can press Ctrl + +.
This will make the text bigger.

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|| Click Help >> About Firefox
|| To know which version of Mozilla Firefox you are using, click on Help and About Firefox.

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|| Go to Edit >> Preferences

Click on General tab>> Click on Home Page field >> Type ‘www.yahoo.com’

Click on Close button.
|| By default, Firefox displays a homepage.

But to set your own preferred webpage as Homepage, click on Edit and Preferences.
Windows users please click on Tools and Options.

In the General tab, click on Home Page field and type ‘www.yahoo.com’ or any of your preferred webpage.

Now you can close Firefox Preference window by clicking the Close button on the bottom left hand corner.

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|| In the address bar, type ‘www.google.com’

Click on Edit >> Find

Click on the ‘x’ at the extreme left.
|| You can use the Edit menu to search for particular words within the webpage.

In the address bar, type ‘www.google.com’

Click on Edit and Find.
A small toolbar appears at the bottom of the browser window.

In the textbox, type the word ‘Gujarati’.

You will observe that the word ‘Gujarati’ on the page gets highlighted.

This function is very useful when searching through large text on a webpage.

Lets close this.

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|| Point to the Navigation toolbar.

Point to the text box.
|| As the name suggests, the Navigation toolbar helps you navigate through the internet.

The Navigation bar is the large text box, where you type the address of the webpage that you want to visit.

It is called the URL bar or Address bar.

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|| Click on the URL >> delete the address >> type ‘www.google.com’.

Press the Enter key.

Clicking on the back arrow.

Click on the forward arrow.
|| Click on the URL and delete the address that is already there. Now type ‘www.google.com’.

Press the ENTER key.

You will now be in the google homepage.

Clicking on the back arrow icon will take you back to the page where you were before.

Click on the forward arrow to go back to the google homepage.

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|| Point to the Homepage icon

|| To the right of the URL bar, is an icon shaped like a house.

This button takes you back to the default home page, from whichever webpage you are on.

This function is useful when you are browsing from a particular site or a search engine.

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|| Click on Homepage

Click on the home page button.
|| Lets click on the homepage button.

Remember we changed the home page to ‘www.yahoo.com’ earlier on.
As a result, clicking on the homepage button brings us to the yahoo homepage.

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||

In the URL bar, type ‘www.gmail.com’.

On page load >> click on the star symbol.

Click on the star again >> From the “Folder” drop down menu >> choose ‘Bookmarks toolbar’.

|| Now lets look at the Bookmarks bar.

Bookmarks help you navigate to pages that you visit or refer to often.

In the URL bar, type ‘www.gmail.com’.

Once the page loads, click on the star symbol to the right of the URL bar.
You see that the star turns yellow.

Click on the star again.
A dialog box pops up.

From the ‘Folder’ drop down menu, choose ‘Bookmarks toolbar’.

Observe that the Gmail bookmark is now added to the Bookmarks toolbar.

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|| Click on the Homepage icon.

Click on the Gmail bookmark.
|| Click on the Homepage icon to go to the yahoo homepage.

Click on the Gmail bookmark. This will direct you to the Gmail login page.

You can use the bookmarks bar for sites which you visit often, but don’t want to have as your homepage.

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Click on View >> Sidebar >> History.

Point to the 3 options.

|| Next we will look at the Sidebar.
Click on View and Sidebar and then click on History.

You see that the bar on the left side now has 3 options - today, yesterday and older than 6 months.
The displayed options is subject to the intervals between the usage of Firefox on that computer.

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|| Click on the plus sign next to Today.

Click on the google link.

|| Click on the plus sign next to the Today icon, to expand the menu.

Choose the google link to be directed back to the google homepage.

See how easy it is to go back to a site that you visited before!

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|| Point to the search textbox.

In the search box type ‘google’

Point to the first result.
|| The Sidebar even has a search function of its own.

You can type in the name of the site that you want to search for in the search box.
This will then search through your history to find it.

In the search box type ‘google’.

The google homepage comes up as the first result.

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|| Click on the ‘x’ on the top right corner.
|| You can make the Sidebar disappear by clicking the small ‘x’ on the top right hand corner of the side bar.

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|| Point to the Status bar.

Go to the URL bar and type ‘www.wired.com’ and press ENTER.

|| Next, lets see what the Status bar does.
The Status bar is the area at the bottom of your browser window that shows you the status of the site you are loading.

Go to the URL bar and type ‘www.wired.com’ and press enter key.

Look at the Status bar quickly. It shows you the status of the loading of that webpage.

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||
Hover cursor over Status bar.
|| The Status bar can help you to understand why a particular site is not loading, the time it may take to load, etc.

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|| Hover over the Content area.
|| Finally, lets look at the Content area.
This is where you see the content of the webpage you are viewing.

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|| Show Slide Number 4.
Summary:
In this tutorial, we learn about;

The Firefox interface

The toolbars

|| This brings us to the end of this tutorial.

In this tutorial, we learnt about;

The Firefox interface

The toolbars

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|| Show Slide Number 5.
Comprehension Assignment

|| Try this comprehension assignment..
Change your home page to ‘www.spoken-tutorial.org’ and navigate to it. Then go to the ‘yahoo’ website by using the browser’s History function.

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|| Show About Slide

About the Spoken Tutorial Project

*Watch the video available at http://spoken-tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial

*It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project

*If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it

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*Watch the video available at the following link

*It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project

*If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it

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|| Show About Slide

Spoken Tutorial Workshops

The Spoken Tutorial Project Team

*Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials

*Gives certificates for those who pass an online test

*For more details, please write to contact@spoken-tutorial.org

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The Spoken Tutorial Project Team

*Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials

*Gives certificates for those who pass an online test

*For more details, please write to contact at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org

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|| Show Acknowledgement Slide

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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|| Show About the contributor Slide

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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