Basic Firefox And Tips

Fonts and colours

Self-explantory, just go and play with the options available.

File Types

Whenever you click on a download, Firefox will prompt you to either open or save it. If you don't want Firefox to prompt you, this is where you manage it.

Click on the Manage... button.

A new window will open. In this window, you will see a list of common extensions and what Firefox will do with it.

For example, a file ending with .swf (it's called extension, but for the non-techie here, I will just write it as a file ending with .xxx)

Look under Action and you will see that Firefox will open it.

Click on Change Action... at the bottom left hand corner.

From here, you can change how Firefox handles them.

Open them with the default application - this will open the file using the default application set.

Open them with this application - you get to choose a program to open this particular type of file.

Save them on my computer - Firefox will not prompt you to either open or save, but save it directly. If you have set Firefox to prompt you where to save (see first post), you will get another dialouge. Otherwise, it will always save to your preferred location.

Use this Plugin - this is the recommended action, since most of us aren't programmers and probably won't bother to get a Flash player. A plugin would work nicely in this case.

It's the same for the rest of the extensions.

For extensions which are not listed, Firefox will automatically save them.