Organising Your Tabs

As you know one of the benefits of Firefox is the multi-tab browsing ability. Sometimes if you build up a number of tabs and are switching between each, you may have one tab on one side of your screen and the other way across the other side.

You can actually move a tab by simply:

• click and holding the tab with the mouse
• move across the screen until you see the little arrow pointing down (see picture red circle below)
• letting go of the mouse button

It's that easy. If you want to close a tab you simply click on the little (x) on the tab and it doesn't even need to be the active tab.

Sorting Your Bookmarks

If you have built up a significant number of bookmarks you may have used the Bookmark Manager to put them into some kind of order and structure using folders. The difficulty with the Bookmark Manager is you have to move folders or links individually if you want them sorted. They'll appear sorted in the bookmark manager but not in the drop down menu.

To sort the items in the drop down menu simply:

• click on the menu
• rightclick on any individual book
• left click on sort by name - voila !

Managing Multiple Profiles

Many FireFox users who have grown up with the Netscape profile options will be glad to know this feature is still available in FireFox. To access the profile menu simply open a command prompt or create a short with the -p switch.

So the command is 'firefox -p' and you will be presented with the following screen. Here you have the option to create a new profile, rename or delete a profile.

Importantly you have the option to have FireFox load the profile selector when you run FireFox. If you create a new Profile you'll be presented with a screen where you click next until you get to the point where you can enter a profile name as shown in this screen.


What are the advantages of profiles:

• Separate bookmarks
• New Profiles load quickly
• Different household members can customize FireFox how they please

What is Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a cross-platform browser, providing support for various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux however various ports have been made to other operating systems.

Firefox is a graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and a large community of external contributors working in a collaborative and open source philosophy. The focus of the site is to provide download links, installation tips as well as configuration and usage information.

You can download firefox with Google toolbar below and after installation use the following posts as reference and guides.