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| openSUSE-Dokumentation Part III. Internet / Chapter 20. Browsing with Firefox | ||||
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Contents
Abstract
Included with your openSUSE® is the Mozilla Firefox Web browser. With features like tabbed browsing, pop-up window blocking, and download and image management, Firefox combines the latest browsing and security technologies with an easy to use interface. Using tabs you can view more than one Web page in a single window. You can suppress annoying advertisements and disable images for faster browsing. Firefox's easy access to different search engines helps you find the information you need.
Start Firefox from the main menu or by entering the command firefox. The main program features are described in the following sections.
Firefox has much the same look and feel as other browsers. It is shown in Figure 20.1, “The Browser Window of Firefox”. The navigation toolbar includes and , the smart location bar for a Web address, and the search bar. Bookmarks are also available for quick access from the bookmarks toolbar. For more information about the various Firefox features, use the menu.
When typing into the location bar, an auto-completion drop-down menu opens, showing the addresses matching what you have typed. The phrase that is matched is highlighted with bold letters. The drop-down menu shows all matching addresses, bookmark and page titles and tag names from your browsing history and your bookmarks list. Matching even works across word boundaries. Entries visited most frequently and recently are listed first.
List entries from the bookmark list are marked with a star. Bookmarks with tags are marked with an additional label followed by the tag names. List entries from the browsing history are not marked.
Use ↑ and ↓ or the mouse wheel to scroll through the list. Press Enter or click on an entry to go to the selected page. Del removes an entry from the list if it is an entry from the history. Bookmarked entries can only be removed by deleting the associated bookmark.
Firefox offers two zooming options: page zoom, the default, and text zoom. Page view zooms the entire page as is, with all elements of a page, including graphics, expanding equally while text zoom only changes the text size.
To toggle between page and text zoom, choose ++. To zoom in or out either use the mouse wheel while holding the Ctrl key, or use Ctrl++ and Ctrl+-. Reset the zoom factor with Ctrl+0
If you often use more than one Web page at a time, tabbed browsing makes it easier to switch between pages. It allows you to load Web sites in separate tabs within one window.
To open a new tab, select + or press Ctrl+T. This opens an empty tab in the Firefox window. To open a link on a web page or a bookmark in a tab, middle-click it. Alternatively, right-click a link and select . You may also open an address in the location bar in a new tab by pressing Ctrl+Enter.
Right-click on a tab to open a context menu giving you access to tab managing options such as closing, reloading, or bookmarking. To close a tab, you may also use Ctrl+W or click the close button. Any closed tab can be restored by choosing from +. In order to reopen the last closed tab either choose from the context menu or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+T.
By default tabs are sorted in the order you opened them. Rearrange the tab order by dragging and dropping a tab to the desired position. If you have opened a large number of tabs, they will not all be displayed in the tab bar. Use the arrows at the ends of the bar to move left or right-click on the down arrow at the right end of the tab bar to get a list of all tabs.
Drag and drop also works with tabs: drag a link onto an existing tab to open it in that tab or drag and drop a link on an empty space in the tab bar to open a new tab.
