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Resources for recording Setting General Privacy Options
| Time | Narration |
| 00:00 | Welcome to the this tutorial of Mozilla Firefox. |
| 00:04 | In this tutorial, we will learn how to:Set General preferences Set Privacy preferences |
| 00:11 | In this tutorial, we are using Firefox version 7.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 |
| 00:18 | Preferences within Mozilla Firefox allows us to perform repetitive tasks with ease. |
| 00:24 | For Windows users, this feature is called Options. |
| 00:29 | Say for example, we want to set our email login page as our home page. |
| 00:33 | So we will click on Edit and Preferences. |
| 00:37 | windows users should click on Tools and Options. |
| 00:42 | The Preferences or Options dialog box opens.At the top of the dialog box, there are a number of tabs. |
| 00:50 | Each one has a different function. |
| 00:53 | The General panel contains preferences related to the most commonly used settings, such as :setting Firefox home page.setting file download location. |
| 01:04 | Let us learn how to set Gmail as our default home page. |
| 01:08 | Under Start up, in the ‘When Firefox starts’ drop down menu, select ‘Show my home page’. |
| 01:16 | By default, the ‘Home page’ field is set to ‘Mozilla Firefox Start Page’. |
| 01:22 | Click on the ‘Home Page’ field and type ‘www.gmail.com’ |
| 01:29 | Click on the Close button to close the dialog box. |
| 01:33 | Our settings will be saved automatically. |
| 01:36 | Now close this Firefox window. |
| 01:40 | And open a new Firefox window. |
| 01:42 | You will notice that the Gmail login page is the homepage. |
| 01:46 | Next, let us now learn how Mozilla Firefox handles downloads. |
| 01:51 | Click on Edit and Preferences. |
| 01:54 | As before, Windows users, please click on Tools and Options. |
| 01:58 | Click on the ‘General’ tab. |
| 02:02 | In the ‘Downloads’ option put a check on the check box ‘Show the Downloads window when downloading a file’. |
| 02:09 | Now check the radio button that says ‘Save files to’. |
| 02:12 | Click the Browse button and change the default folder to Desktop. |
| 02:18 | Click on the Close button to close the dialog box. |
| 02:24 | As before, our settings will be saved automatically. |
| 02:28 | In the browser’s Search bar, type ‘flowers’ and click the magnifying lens to the right. |
| 02:34 | Right-click on the first search result that appears. |
| 02:38 | And click on ‘Save Link As’. |
| 02:40 | You notice that by default the link would be downloaded to Desktop. |
| 02:46 | Click ‘Save’ and the file will be saved on the Desktop. |
| 02:51 | The Tabs panel contains preferences related to the tabbed browsing feature. |
| 02:56 | The Content panel contains preferences related to how websites are displayed. |
| 03:02 | The Applications panel lets you decide how Mozilla Firefox should handle different types of files. |
| 03:11 | It could be a PDF document or an audio file . |
| 03:13 | As an assignment, explore these tabs and the options, therein. |
| 03:19 | The Privacy panel contains preferences related to your web-privacy. |
| 03:25 | Under Tracking, lets put a check on ‘Tell web sites I do not want to be tracked’. |
| 03:30 | Selecting this option will stop websites from storing information about your browsing behavior. |
| 03:37 | Under History, there are many options. |
| 03:41 | In the ‘Firefox will’ field, choose ‘Never remember history’. |
| 03:45 | Enabling this option means that the history of your browsing will be not be retained in your computer. |
| 03:53 | If we click on ‘Clear all current history’ then all the browsing history stored on the your computer will be cleared. |
| 04:01 | Coming down to the Location Bar. |
| 04:04 | In the ‘When using the location bar, suggest:’ field, we will click on the drop down menu and select ‘Nothing’ |
| 04:11 | On doing so, whenever you are enter a new URL in the address bar, you will not be prompted with suggestions. |
| 04:19 | Click Close to close the dialog box. |
| 04:23 | your privacy is now completely protected. |
| 04:26 | The Security panel contains preferences related to keeping your web browsing safe. |
| 04:32 | The Sync panel lets you set up or manage a “Firefox Sync” account. |
| 04:36 | Firefox Sync lets us use our history, bookmarks and passwords across different devices. |
| 04:45 | The Advanced Panel contains some important Firefox settings. |
| 04:49 | It has Browsing and System Default settings to control the behavior of Firefox. |
| 04:57 | We can also configure the way Firefox connects to the Internet using the Network option. |
| 05:03 | Within the Network tab, under Connections, click on the Settings button. |
| 05:09 | This are opens up the Connection Settings dialog box. |
| 05:11 | Here you can configure the Proxies. |
| 05:15 | Proxies are used to improve performance and provide better security. |
| 05:21 | By default, the ‘Use system proxy settings’ radio button is selected. |
| 05:26 | This option uses the settings configured for your operating system. |
| 05:31 | To enter the proxy settings manually, click on Manual proxy configuration radio button. |
| 05:38 | You can now enter the the proxy settings in these fields. |
| 05:42 | Click on the Close button to close the Connection Settings dialog box. |
| 05:49 | Again click on the Close button to close the Preferences or Options dialog box. |
| 05:55 | Your settings will be saved, automatically. |
| 05:58 | Lastly, we can update Firefox using the Update tab in the Advanced panel. |
| 06:05 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial. |
| 06:08 | In this tutorial, we learnt how to:Set General preferences Set Privacy preferences |
| 06:15 | Try this comprehension test assignment. |
| 06:19 | Open a new browser window. |
| 06:21 | Change your home page to ‘spoken-tutorial.org’. |
| 06:28 | Change your default download location to ‘Home Folder’ and |
| 06:30 | Change your ‘When using the location bar, suggest:’ setting to History and Bookmarks. |
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