Better Flickr is a Firefox Extension.

You can download it from the Firefox Add-Ons site.

Flickr users will appreciate this extension. Created by Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani, it is a compilation of a bunch of different Greasemonkey scripts.

Once installed, go to the extension’s Options Window to add/remove the following scripts:

Below you can find a description of each script:

Flickr Buddy Icon Reply
Add a reply link to each comment which will generate the buddy icon code or bold username code in the add comment textarea on flickr.

Flickr More User Links
Adds useful links to external services to the user sub-menu. Based on Browse by Interesting script by steeev and Scout Link by netomer.

Flickr Photo Magnifier
Add a magnifier to the photo pages. Click+mouse drag will zoom in and out. You can configure the quality of the image through the greasemonkey user script menu.

Flickr Photo Page Enhancer
Adds links to different sizes directly to a Flickr photo page, generates html code to easily copy’n paste thumbnail & description, and automatically loads your 20 most used tags when you click “Add Tag.”

Flickr Rich Edit
Adds a simple rich edit interface (Italic, Bold, Blockquote, Link) to any comment text area on flickr and any in-situ description editor.

Flickr Thumbnails Enhancer
Adds more information (comments, notes) to lists of thumbnails on Flickr.

You can quickly find the Top 10 most visited sites right on your Bookmarks Toolbar. If you don’t have the Bookmarks Toolbar visible, just go to View > Toolbars > Bookmarks Toolbar:

On the left-hand side of the Bookmarks Toolbar, you’ll notice a blue folder labeled “Most Visited”:

Clicking on the “Most Visited” folder will show you the Top 10 most visited sites:

If you’re really curious, you can go a step further and see the actual number of times you’ve visited each site. Just go to the top of your browser and click History > Show All History:

A pop-up “Library” window will appear.

Click on Views > Show Columns > Visit Count:

A column will appear showing you how many times you’ve visited each website. This list is not reserved for the Top 10 only, but contains all websites that are in your browser history:

For example, let’s say that you only want to send encrypted information over the Internet. However, if a situation occurs when you’re about to send unencrypted information, you’d like Firefox to notify you.

You can configure Firefox to this; and you have a few other options as well. Just go to the top of your browser and click Tools > Options:

In the “Warning Messages” section, click on the “Settings” button:

The “Security Warnings” window will open. From here, you can select the warning messages that you would like to appear:

But did you ever wonder what changes have taken place?

Here’s an easy way to find out:

Go to the top of your browser and click Help > Release Notes:

Here you can read about all of the changes that have been made to create the most current version. See an example below:

Make use of this quick information and stay current with your browser.

While we’re on the subject, is your Firefox browser up-to date? Here are detailed instructions on how to Check For Updates?

Below you will find links to Firefox-related Wikipedia pages:

Mozilla
Firefox
Features of Mozilla Firefox
History of Mozilla Firefox
Market Adoption of Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla
Mozilla Corporation
Mozilla Foundation
Mozilla Public License
The Book of Mozilla

People
Mitchell Baker
Brian Behlendorf
Christopher Blizzard
Asa Dotzler
Brendan Eich
Joe Hewitt
Dave Hyatt
Joi Ito
Mitch Kapor
Gervase Markham
Dave Miller
Tristan Nitot
Blake Ross
Mike Shaver
Window Snyder
Johnny Stenback

International
Mozilla China
Mozilla Europe
Mozilla Japan

Other
Browser Timeline
Browser Wars
Bugzilla
Cairo Graphics
Cross-Platform
DOM Inspector
Free Software
Gecko Layout Engine
JavaScript Console
Microformats
Netscape
Open Source
Plugins
Proprietary Software
Source Code
Tabbed Browsing
Venkman
Web Browser
XUL ]]> http://learnfirefox.cybernetnews.com/2007/09/12/firefox-on-wikipedia/feed/ 1 http://learnfirefox.cybernetnews.com/2007/09/07/firefox-download-counter/ http://learnfirefox.cybernetnews.com/2007/09/07/firefox-download-counter/#comments Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:15:59 +0000 Chris Rossini http://learnfirefox.cybernetnews.com/2007/09/07/firefox-download-counter/ Did you ever wonder how many times Firefox has been downloaded?

What would you think if you found out the number was in the hundreds of millions? Well, it’s true!

As of Sept. 2007, Firefox has been downloaded 400 million times!

Here’s the breakdown since the 1.0 release:

• 6 months = 50 million downloads
• 1 year = 100 million
• 2 years = 200 million
• 3 years = 400 million

Total number of downloads are currently doubling every year!

If you ever want to check up on the number of downloads, just head over to Spread Firefox. On the right side of the page you’ll notice the download counter:

This can be helpful when you’re debating with your friends; just keep in mind that this is the number of downloads and not the number of actual users, which has been estimated to be just over 100 million.

First, let’s tell Firefox how you’d like to subscribe to feeds.

Go to the top of your browser and click Tools > Options:

Make sure you’re in the “Feeds” section:

You then have a couple of choices:

• Show me a preview and ask me which feed reader to use – Everytime you try to subscribe to a feed, Firefox will ask you which feed reader you’d like to use.
• Subscribe to the feed using: – Firefox will subscribe to every feed with the same feed reader (of your choice). If you have a desktop-based application that you’d like to use, just click on the “Choose Application” button and locate it on your hard drive.

Subscribing to a feed is very easy. Firefox let’s you know that a feed is available for a website by placing an orange RSS icon in your address bar:

If you’d like to subscribe, just click on this orange button.

Sometimes, there may be more than one feed to choose from. Firefox will let you know and give you a choice. Here’s an example:

Once you make your selection, Firefox will then follow the instructions that you gave it in the Options Menu. Either you will be asked which feed reader to use, or you’ll have the ability to subscribe with the feed reader that you designated.

This is how it’s done:

Go to the top of your browser and click Tools > Options:

Make sure you are in the “Privacy” section.

Then find the “Private Data” area:

You can have Firefox automatically clear your private data by checking the box labeled “Always clear my private data when I close Firefox.”

Clicking on the “Settings” button will allow you to choose which data will be cleared:

You can also manually clear the data at anytime. Just click the “Clear Now” button.

Once again, you’ll be asked exactly which data to clear:

Click the “Clear Private Data Now” button, and you’re finished.

Go to the top of your browser and click Tools > Options:

The “Options” window will open.

Make sure you are in the “Privacy” section.

In the middle of the window, you’ll notice an area specifically designated for cookie management:

If you’d like to accept all cookies, just check the box labeled “Accept cookies from sites.”

Directly underneath the checkbox, you can choose how long you’d like to keep the cookies. Your options are:

• Keep until they expire
• Keep until I close Firefox
• Ask me every time

You can take a look at all of the cookies that have been accepted by clicking on the “Show Cookies” button:

From the above window, you can search for, as well as remove, any cookies.

Blocking Cookies

Let’s say you’d like to block cookies from every website. Just uncheck the box labeled “Accept cookies from sites.”

Please keep in mind that if you block all cookies, you will not be able to login to any website…unless you create an “Exception.”

For example, let’s say you have a CyberNet News account. If all cookies are blocked, you will not be able to login to CyberNet. Cookies store your username and password information.

You need to create “Exceptions” for sites that you wish to allow:

Exceptions

Click on the “Exceptions” button:

Here you can:

• Allow any site (if you are blocking all cookies), or
• Block any site (if you are allowing all cookies)

To make use of this feature, go to the top of your browser and click Tools > Options:

Make sure you are in the “Content” section.

Below, I highlighted the checkbox where you can enable/disable images:

In both cases, whether you enable or disable images, there may be some sites that you consider to be exceptions to the rule.

Click on the “Exceptions” button to create a list of sites that you allow or disallow.

In our example, we’re going to block all images from Yahoo.com. (Nothing against Yahoo! here. This is only an example).

So we type Yahoo’s URL ins the text box marked “Addresss of website,” and then click the “Block” button:

All images from Yahoo.com are now blocked:

If you change your mind about this site, or any other site that you add to the list, you can always remove any or all of them:

Just go to the top of your browser and click Tools > Options:

The “Options” window will open.

Make sure you are in the “Content” section.

I highlighted below where you can find the checkbox to enable/disable JavaScript:

If you’d like to keep JavaScript enabled, you can still disable certain actions that a script may try to perfom.

Click on the “Advanced” button.

The “Advanced JavaScript Settings” will open:

As you can see, even though you have JavaScript enabled, you can refuse to allow a script to “Move or resize existing windows,” or “Hide the status bar,” etc.

Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

In other words, there are websites out there that masquerade as a genuine website, like eBay or Paypal. These fake sites look exactly like the real thing, logos and all. In reality, they are fake, and their sole purpose is to get personal information out of you.

Firefox has built-in phishing protection, and it is enabled by default. Each site that you visit will be compared to a list known phishing sites that are stored on your computer. No information is sent to Mozilla or any third parties. A new list is downloaded every 30 minutes.

If you come across a known phishing site, you’ll be given two options to click on:

• “Get me out of here!” – This will redirect you to the Firefox Start page.
• “Ignore this warning” – You will continue to the suspected phishing site.

To adjust your anti-phishing settings, go to the top of your browser and click Tools > Options:

In the “Security” section, you’ll find the following:

Make sure the box labeled “Tell me if the site I’m visiting is a suspected forgery” is checked.

You are then given two choices:

• Check using a downloaded list of suspected sites.
• Check by asking Google about each site I visit.

If you choose to ask Google, you will be have to accept the terms of service:

So why would you choose to use the Google list? Well, Google’s list of phishing sites will be a little more up-to-date, since the Firefox list is downloaded every 30 minutes.

You also have the ability to contribute to the anti-phishing cause. If you come across a site that you suspect as forgery, go to the top of your browser and click Help > Report Web Forgery:

A form will appear where you can then report the suspected site.

It’s very easy to turn on:

Go to the top of your browser and click Tools > Options:

In the “Content” section, you’ll want to check the box labeled “Block pop-up windows”:

When you visit a site that normally has pop-up windows, you’ll see the following bar appear near the top of your browser window:

This bar alerts you to the fact that Firefox has blocked a pop-up. You can close the bar by clicking on the [x] in the right-hand corner.

But let’s say you’re visiting a site where you want the pop-up to appear?

In this case, you can click on the “Options” button in the toolbar. You’ll be given the following options:

Click on the green check mark to allow the pop-ups to appear for the site you are visiting.

The site will go on the “Exceptions” list. This is a list of sites that the pop-up blocker let’s through. You can edit the “Exceptions” list at any time.

To do so, go back to the top of your browser and click Tools > Options.

Then click the “Exceptions” button (as shown below):

The “Allowed Sites” window will appear:

From here, you can add sites to the list. You can also remove any individual site, or all of them at once.

For example, let’s say you save your Google user name and password in the Firefox Password Manager. The next time you go to login to Google, the user name and password fields will be filled in…All you have to do is click on the submit button.

This is a time-saver, and it eliminates the need to remember all of your passwords, but you should weigh the pros and cons before deciding to use it.

If other people (e.g., at work) will be using your Firefox browser, it’s probably best not to use this feature at all.

If you are the only one that uses your computer, it may not be a bad idea. However, if your computer ever gets stolen, your personal information will go with it. So be careful as to which passwords you’d like your browser to save.

If you decide that this feature is for you, then please read on to see how it works:

To set Firefox to remember your passwords, go to the top of your browser and click Tools > Options:

Under “Security” you’ll see a section called “Passwords.”

Click on “Remember passwords for sites”:

Now let’s say you go to the Google login page and enter in your credentials. When you hit submit, you’ll receive the following message from your Firefox browser:

• Clicking on “Remember” will save your user name and password in Firefox.
• “Never for This Site” will put Google on the “Exceptions” list in your browser, and you will never be asked to save it in Firefox again.
• “Not Now” will do nothing this time…but you will be asked again for Firefox to save your information the next time you try to login to Google.

You can always check to see which sites have been saved and which have been placed on the “Exceptions” list.

Just go back to Tools > Options > Security.

Clicking on the “Show Passwords” button will bring up a screen that shows all of the sites that you have saved. You can remove any or all of the sites on the list:

Clicking on the “Exceptions” button will bring up a window that shows all of the sites in which passwords will not be saved. Once again, you can remove any or all of the sites on this list:

Finally, we have the “Master Password.”

This is an additional layer of protection that is available to you. Clicking on the box labeled “Use a master password” will bring up the following window:

Before you can login anywhere, you will be asked to enter your Master Password. You will only be asked once per browser session.

So let’s say I just booted up my computer and I’m ready to login to Google. Before being able to do so, I will be asked to enter my master password:

In order to change or disable your Master Password, you must enter your current one..So don’t forget it:

Make Link is a Firefox Extension.

You can download it from the developer’s website or the Firefox Add-Ons site.

The Make Link extension will create a link for the page that you are currently viewing. It can create this link in several different formats (Plain Text, Forum Code, HTML, Markdown).

To use this extension, right-click on the website that you’re viewing. In this example we’ll use the home page of CyberNet News.

After right-clicking on the page, go down to “Make Link” in the context menu. You’ll be given the following options:

Clicking on any of the options will put a copy of the link on your computer’s clipboard. You can then paste this link anywhere you want.

Here are the results of the different formats:

• Plain Text – CyberNet News: Keeping you plugged in! <http://tech.cybernetnews.com/>
• Forum Code – [url=http://tech.cybernetnews.com/]CyberNet News: Keeping you plugged in![/url]
• HTML – < a href=”http://tech.cybernetnews.com/”>CyberNet News: Keeping you plugged in!
• Markdown – [CyberNet News: Keeping you plugged in!](http://tech.cybernetnews.com/ “CyberNet News: Keeping you plugged in!”)

To customize this extension, click on “Configure” in the context menu:

The “Make Link Options” window will appear:

Here you can:

• Change the order of the Link Types in the context menu.
• Delete or Modify any of the Link Types.
• Create a New Link Type.

If you’d like to create a New Link Type of your own, this is the form that you will have to fill in:

Fuller Screen is a Firefox Extension.

You can download it from the Firefox Add-Ons site.

Fuller Screen enhances the default Full Screen mode in Firefox. It hides all of your toolbars.

After installing the extension, there are two ways to go into Full Screen mode. First, you can hit the F11 key on your keyboard. Second, you can click on the full screen icon located in the bottom right corner of your Status Bar:

Below is a comparison of the default Full Screen mode and Fuller Screen. You’ll notice all toolbars are hidden with the Fuller Screen extension:

To exit full screen mode, click on the F11 key once again. You can also drag your mouse down to the bottom of the screen to make the Status Bar reappear…From there, you can click the full screen icon to go back to normal mode.

MinimizeToTray is a Firefox Extension.

You can download it from the developer’s website or the Firefox Add-Ons site.

This extension allows you to minimize Firefox to the System Tray, rather than the Taskbar.

After installing the extension, there are several ways to minimize the browser window:

First, you can go to the top of your browser and click File > Minimize to Tray:

Second, you can type Ctrl+Shift+M on your keyboard.

Third, you can right-click on the minimize button at the top right corner of your browser window:

All three processes will minimize the browser to the system tray:

Right-clicking on the Firefox icon (while it’s in the system tray) will bring up the following options:

 And there are also has a couple of customizations that you can find in its Options window:

QuickRestart is a Firefox Extension.

You can download it from the developer’s website or the Firefox Add-Ons site.

Whenever you install a new Firefox extension or theme, you are asked to restart your browser for the changes to take effect.

QuickRestart makes the process a bit quicker and simpler.

To watch a video on using QuickRestart, click on the “Play Video” button below. Or, scroll down for step-by-step instructions with screenshots.

Step-by-Step Instructions with Screenshots

After installing QuickRestart, you can restart the browser in one of two ways:

1. From the Tools Menu
2. Clicking the Toolbar Button

Let’s begin with the Tools Menu.

To restart your browser, click on Tools > Restart Firefox:

If you’d rather use your keyboard to start the browser, just type Ctrl+Alt+R.

Next, we’ll move to the toolbar button.

There are a couple of steps here. You’ll notice after installing the QuickStart extension that the toolbar button does not automatically appear on your browser window. You must place it on the browser manually.

Here’s how:

Click on View > Toolbars > Customize:

The “Customize Toolbar” window will appear.

Find the “Restart” button:

Left-click on the the “Restart” button and drag it up to your toolbar. The vertical black line indicates where the button will be placed:

Click on the button to restart Firefox:

You have the option of telling Firefox which language it should display first.

For example, let’s say that you’d like Firefox to show you the Polish version of a website (if it’s available).

You would first go to the top of your browser and click Tools > Options:

The “Options” window will appear. You then want to do the following in order:

1. Click on the “Advanced” section.
2. Click on the “General” tab.
3. Click “Choose”:

The “Languages” window will appear.

You’ll see that English is set as the default language.

To add a different language, click on the drop-down menu labeled “Select a language to add…”:

A long list of different languages will appear.

Choose your language and click on it. (In our example it’s Polish):

Then click the “Add” button:

You’ll then want to move your selected language to the top of the list.

Click on your language to highlight it.

Then click the “Move Up” button until your language is first on the list:

You can add as many languages as you want to this list, and arrange them in any order by clicking the “Move Up,” and “Move Down” buttons. You can also remove a language by clicking the “Remove” button.

When you’re satisfied with the order of your languages, click the “OK” button and you are finished:

One final (and important) note:

Just because Polish is now first on the list, does not mean that every webpage will now be displayed in Polish. Only if a Polish version of a website exists, will it be displayed to you first. If a Polish version does not exist, you will see the English version.

To watch a video on changing the text size, click on the “Play Video” button below. Or, scroll down for step-by-step instructions with screenshots:

Step-by-Step Instructions with Screenshots

Let’s start with increasing the text size. At the top of your browser, click View > Text Size > Increase:

You can also increase the text size by typing Ctrl++. You can keep increasing the text size to your liking.

Here’s an example:

To make the text its original size, click View > Text Size > Normal:

You can also make the text its original size by typing Ctrl+0.   ***That’s the number “0,” and not the letter “O”.

Next, let’s decrease the text size. Click View > Toolbars > Decrease:

You can also decrease the text size by typing Ctrl+-.

Here’s an example:

By default, your Home Page is your Statup Page. 

You can change this, however. You have choices as to what you’d like to see first.

To watch a video, click the “Play Video” button below. Or, scroll down for step-by-step instructions with screenshots:

Step-by-Step Intructions with Screenshots

To view the options available to you, go to the top of your Firefox browser, and click Tools > Options:

The “Options” window will appear.

We want to focus on the highlighted area shown below:

As you can see, the Home Page is set to be the Startup Page.

To see your other options, click on the dropdown menu. It will look like the following:

You have two other options:

• Show a blank page – Choose this to have a blank browser window when Firefox starts up.
• Show my windows and tabs from last time – Choose this to have the tabs and windows from your last browsing session open at startup. For example, if you had 3 tabs open the last time you shutdown Firefox, those same 3 tabs will be open when you startup again.

Choose whichever option suits you best and click the “OK” button.

You’re done!

But what if you’d like to change it to your favorite technology website CyberNet News?

To watch a video, click on the “Play Video” button below. Or, scroll down for step-by-step instructions with screenshots:

Step-by-Step Instructions with Screenshots

At the top of your Firefox browser, click Tools > Options:

The “Options” window will appear.

We’re going to focus on the orange highlighted area in the screenshot below:

To the right of “Home Page,” there is a web address. This is the address of the Firefox default home page. It is in this space that you will type the address of your new home page.

But before doing so, it’s good to know what those 3 buttons below the address mean:

• Use Current Page – If you were to hit this button, it will make the current page of your Firefox browser your home page. In other words, let’s say you were on the website NFL.com when you entered the Options Window. If you were to click on the Use Current Page button, NFL.com would become your new home page.
• Use Bookmark – Clicking this button will bring up a list of your bookmarks. You can then choose your new home page from that list.
• Restore to Default – Clicking this button makes the home page the Firefox default home page.

Now that we know what all of the buttons mean, it’s time to change our home page to the CyberNet homepage. Type http://tech.cybernetnews.com into the box labeled “Home Page.”

Then, click on “OK”:

To make sure it worked properly, go up to the Home Page button in your browser and click on it:

Your new home page should appear!

To watch a video on how to open a file, click on the “Play Video” button below. Or, scroll down for step-by-step instructions with screenshots.

Step-by-Step Instructions with Screenshots

At the top of your Firefox browser, click on File > Open File (or, you can type Ctrl+O on your keyboard):

The “Open File” window will appear.

Locate the file you are looking for and click the “Open” button:

You’re done!

First, you can type Ctrl+N on your keyboard.

Second, at the top of your Firefox browser, click File > New Window:

Finally, you can click on the “New Window” button in your Firefox browser. This button does not appear in your browser window by default. You have to do some simple customizing.

To add the “New Window” button, click on View > Toolbars > Customize:

The “Customize Toolbar” window will appear. Find the “New Window” button:

Left-click on the “New Window” button and drag it to one of your toolbars. The black vertical line indicates where the new button will be placed.

Your toolbar should look like the following:

So there you have it — three different ways to open a new Firefox window:

Below are two screenshots of the same webpage. The first is taken in normal view, while the second is taken in full screen mode. The orange highlights indicate the toolbars that are hidden when in full screen mode.

To switch to full screen mode, go to the top of your Firefox browser and click View > Full Screen. Or you can type F11 on your keyboard:

To leave full screen mode, type F11 on your keyboard once again.

To work offline means your Firefox browser is disconnected from the Internet. This does not mean that your computer is completely disconnected from the Internet. All of your other programs will still maintain their Internet connection. Only your Firefox connection will be disabled.

To watch a video on how to work offline, click on the “Play [>]“ button below. Or, scroll down for step-by-step instructions with screenshots:

Step-by-Step Instructions with Screenshots:

To work offline, go to the top of your Firefox browser and click File > Work Offline:

That’s it!

Your Firefox browser is now offline.

Remember, you cannot browse the Internet in offline mode. You’ll get the following message if you try:

Going back online is just as simple.

Just go back to File > Work Offline and click it again. You’ll notice a checkmark next to “Work Offline,” indicating that you are, in fact, offline:

Once again, you’re back on the Net!

There are two ways to check if updates are available:

1) Automatic

2) Manual

Automatic Updates

With automatic updates, you can let Firefox do all the work. It will periodically check for new updates, and then download them for you automatically.

Let’s see how this is done:

At the top of your Firefox browser, click on Tools > Options:

The “Options Window” will open.

Go to the Advanced section.

Inside the Advanced section, you want to click on the Update tab:

Here you will specifically tell Firefox what it should look for.

-If you put a check next to Firefox, it means Firefox will check if new versions of the browser are available. This includes security updates.

-If you check Installed Add-Ons, Firefox will check if there are new versions of the Add-Ons that you have installed.

-If you check Search Engines, Firefox will try to find updates for any of the search engines that you have installed in your Search Bar.

Let’s move onto the next section:

Now that you’ve told Firefox what updates it should look for, your next step is to tell Firefox what to do with the updates once they are found.

-If you choose “Ask me what I want to do,” Firefox will ask you (via a pop-up window) if you want to install the newest updates.

-If you choose “Automatically download and install the update,” Firefox will not ask you if you approve of the install. It will download and install the updates automatically.

Sometimes, when a new version of Firefox is released, some of the add-ons will be incompatible. If you have incompatible Add-Ons, they will be disabled until the developers of Add-Ons update them. If you’re concerned that an update may disable some of your Add-Ons, check the box that says, “Warn me if this will disable any of my add-ons.”

Finally, if you’d like to see what updates have already been done on your Firefox browser, click “Show Update History”:

Now that we’ve covered Automatic updates, let’s move onto Manual updates.

Manual Updates

With Manual updates you can see if updates are available right now. 

You can have Automatic updates enabled and check for updates Manually. You do not have to choose between the two.

To check Manually, you would do the following:

At the top of your Firefox browser, click on Help > Check for Updates:

To watch the video on finding the version number, click on the “Play Video” button below. Or, scroll down for step-by-step instructions with screenshots:

Step-by-Step Instructions with Screenshots

You can find the version number by going to the top of your Firefox browser and clicking Help > About Mozilla Firefox:

Let’s say that you’re reading a Microsoft Word document that a friend e-mailed to you. In this document, there are some hyperlinks to web pages. You decide to click on one of the links to check out a website.

Obviously, you can’t view the webpage in Microsoft Word. You need to view it in a web browser. Your computer system knows this, and begins to open a browser for you.

But which one will it open?

If you have 3 different web browsers installed (Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera), your computer system will not choose one of them at random. It will open up the browser that is set as the default.

To watch a video on setting Firefox as your default browser, click on the “Play Video” button below. Or, scroll down for step-by-step instructions with screenshots:

Step-by-Step Instructions with Screenshots

If you would like your computer system to open up Firefox by default, follow these simple steps:

First, at the top of your Firefox browser, click on Tools > Options:

 The options window will appear. Make sure that you are on the “Main” tab, which is highlighted for you below:

Next you want to go to the “System Defaults” section near the bottom of the options window:

Click on the box that says “Check Now” to see if Firefox is your default browser. If it is not, you will receive the following message:

Click “Yes” to make Firefox your default browser.

You’re done!

If you’d like to double-check, go back to the “Check Now” button and click on it again. You’ll get the following message:

Firefox is now your default web browser!