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Customizing Firefox Jessen Felix

Customizing Firefox for Educators

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Customizing FirefoxJessen Felix

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Meet Ms. Firefox

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Right click at this region and play…

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Let’s personalize Ms. Firefox

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Right click at the red dinosaur head…

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Right click at the red dinosaur head…

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Go to “Properties”

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Select the “Name” and Delete

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This will keep the “icon” intact but deletes the text…

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You can delete any icon by…

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To bookmark any website…just drag and drop the icon here…

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Click on the new bookmark to see the logo of the website appear...

• Most of the time the website icon should appear in all its glory

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Play around until you get this view on your bookmark toolbars…

• You can use the icons of any website as you like

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A few useful websites: Zohocreator.com…

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Ottobib.com

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www.zamzar.com

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www.mediafire.com

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www.schoolr.com

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Don’t forget our website…

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Tab browsing circa 1588

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How to browse multiple websites without opening a lot of windows

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We want to avoid this….

• (It looks ugly and makes browsing uncomfortable to navigate…)

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Click Ctrl+T to open a new tab…

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This was later copied by the new Internet Explorer…

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Make your browser more powerful…

• Customize the search box 

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Click here…

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These are search engines useful for educators…

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And some more…

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Some more…

www.hakia.com

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Add it like this…

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Adding gadgets…

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Go to our website…

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Open these links into tabs…

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Open these links into tabs…

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This tool is useful for making websites

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For information gathering…

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Another useful tool for making websites & working with Photoshop

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For downloading videos…

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Useful for bookmarking…

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To track how much time you have wasted online…

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To install, click here…

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Click install now…

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After you completed installing all five add‐ons, click “Restart Firefox”

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Sometimes this shows up: Just click “Close Tab”

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You might get this too: Click OK

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You should be seeing this view now…