Tutorial Ubuntu 12.4

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. Navigate to the page that you would like to become your new home page. If you want Firefox to open more than one tab when it starts, open a new tab and navigate to the extra page as many times as you would like. . Choose Edit ‣ Preferences ‣ General ‣ Startup ‣ Use Current Pages ‣ Close.

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The home page can also be set by entering the addresses that should be open in the Home Page, with a pipe (“|”) separating pages to be opened in separate tabs.

Download settings

In Edit ‣ Preferences ‣ General ‣ Downloads, you can hide or show the Downloads window, tell Firefox where to place downloaded files, and whether or not to ask where each time. Bookmarks

When browsing the web you may want to come back to certain web pages again without having to remember the . To do this, you bookmark each page. ese bookmarks are saved in the web browser, and you can use them to re-open to those web pages. Bookmarking a page

Aer navigating to a web page you can save its location by bookmarking it. ere are two ways to bookmark a page: ‣ From the top bar, choose Bookmarks ‣ Bookmark is Page, or press Ctrl+D. A window opens, allowing you to provide a descriptive name for the bookmark and a location (within the browser’s bookmarks) to save it. Press Done to save. ‣ Press the star on the right-hand side in the Location Bar. It turns yellow. is saves the page in the Unsorted Bookmarks folder. Navigating to a bookmarked page

To navigate to a bookmarked page, open the Bookmarks menu from the top bar, and choose your bookmark. Firefox opens the bookmark in the current tab. You can reveal the bookmarks, including the Unsorted Bookmarks, in a sidebar on the le of the browser window. Select View ‣ Sidebar ‣ Bookmarks, or press Ctrl+B. Repeat, or press the close button at its top, to hide the sidebar.

Deleting or editing a bookmark

To delete or edit a bookmark, do one of the following: ‣ If you are viewing the page already, the star in the Location Bar will be yellow. Press it. Firefox opens a small pop-up window, where you can either Remove Bookmark or edit the bookmark. ‣ Select Bookmarks ‣ Show All Bookmarks or press Shift+Ctrl+O. In the window that opens, you can navigate to bookmarks. Select the one you would like to change. To delete, right-click and choose Delete or press Delete on your keyboard. To edit, change the details shown at the boom of the window.

The Downloads window shows the progress of currently downloading files, and lists files downloaded in the past. It can be used to open or re-download files.


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