More with Firefox Jean Anderson June 20, 2008

Why do more with Firefox? Why not? Improve the browsing experience Personalize your browser Make your browser work for you Make some of your tasks easier It’s easier than you think

Today’s Add-on Agenda Vertigo Tab X Morning Coffee Add to Search Bar Screengrab Del.icio.us

Morning Coffee Del.icio.us Add to Search Bar Vertigo Tab X Screengrab & Del.icio.us

Vertigo and Tab X Moves tabs from the top to the side You can have more tabs visible One drawback – you lose the X to close the tab Unless… you also install Tab X Ensures that every tab has an X to close it I recommend adding these together

Vertigo & Morning Coffee before Tab X No X

Vertigo with Tab X installed – makes closing the tabs much easier!

Morning Coffee Let’s you automate the sites you regularly visit Example – when you open Firefox – where do you regularly go? For me, it’s Meebo, Gmail, LibraryThing, Bloglines, and eVanced (our scheduling software) With Morning Coffee, these open with one click!

Click on Options to add your favorite web sites to Morning Coffee

Add to Search Bar Add multiple search engines Saves you time Access your favorite search engines from one place Can do more than Google

Visit a site, right click on the Search bar Select the Add to Search Bar option

Click on OK to complete the process

Your site has been added to the Search Bar

Screengrab Use to capture web pages Use to capture images or portions of web pages Save or copy the images into a document Warning – don’t change the file name that Screengrab assigns when you save the image Use as you would a screen shot – in presentations, documents, flyers, etc.

Screengrab Icon Click on the icon and then choose which type of screengrab you want to do

An example of a screengrab - selection File name: South Central Library System_ png

Del.icio.us Organize your bookmarks Tag them More information – Week 8 of Project PlayProject Play Play Date: More with Del.icio.us  Next Friday, June 27 at 10:00 a.m.  Register at the SCLS CalendarSCLS Calendar

Del.icio.us gives you a tour of its features after downloading is complete – not all add-ons do

Bookmarks opened on the sidebar – close when not in use To Open Bookmarks To your del.icio.us account Tag a web site

How do you do it? Click on Tools (in your toolbar) Then on Add-ons This also lists your current add-ons Click on Get Extensions This takes you out to the Add-ons portion of the Firefox website Search for add-ons

From the Tools Bar, go to Add-ons

This opens a window with your current Add-ons Click here to search for new Add-ons Notice the Options, Disable and Uninstall buttons

Click on title for more info

Look for reviews Check out the Update Date

Check out the description to see if the add-on will do what you want Also, check out who provides support – if needed

While these reviews aren’t great – check the date. Firefox 3 was released and the add-on probably wasn’t upgraded – yet And, since we’re still using Firefox 2 – we’re good to go!

Ready? If you’re satisfied with the information you’ve found on your selected download Click on Add to Firefox Follow instructions on the screen You’ll need to restart Firefox for the add-on to take effect Easy to uninstall – if you’re not happy with the add-on

How do I find out about Add-ons? Lifehacker  downloaded-eight-million-times downloaded-eight-million-times Other bloggers  Tasha Saecker’s blog  Jessamyn West system-talk-and-notes/ system-talk-and-notes/

Questions? Jean Anderson