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[[Category:How-To]] [[Category:Computers]]Firefox is a free web browser available for Windows, [[MacOS X]], and [[Linux]]. It has many features that other browsers don't, including pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing. Consider [http://www.mozilla.org downloading Firefox] if you don't already have it. If you have a Mac, also consider getting [http://www.caminobrowser.org/ Camino], a truly Mac OS X native browser using the Gecko engine (the same thing that's inside Firefox). It doesn't have all the extensions available that Firefox does, but it's more Mac-friendly and really a beautifully simple browser. For some extra features, check out [http://www.nada.de/mac/camitools/ CamiTools], a set of extensions for Camino.
Anyway, this page is dedicated to extensions and one-time procedures that will help you get the most out of Firefox.
Save the "wso.jpg" file in the same "searchplugins" folder. That's it. Restart firefox. Now, when you click on the icon or little triangle next to your Firefox search box, the drop-down menu should show "WSO Facebook" as one of the search engines you can use. If you're off-campus, you'll be prompted to log in first, but it will still work.
==WSO Bookmarks==
The [http://scuttle.org/wiki/doku.php?id=firefox_extension Scuttle extension] adds pretty buttons to your browser to make it easy to see all of your bookmarks on WSO, and to bookmark the page you're currently looking at.
===Configuring===
After you download and install the extension according to the instructions on the above link, you need to put the toolbar buttons on your browser.
* Right-click (or control-click) on the navigation bar (which holds icons "back","forward"), and select "Customize...".
* Drag the two Scuttle icons out to the navigation bar. They look like these:
[[Image:Scuttle icons.jpg]]
* Select "Tools" from the top menu. Click on "Extensions". In the Extensions window, Click on Scuttle and then click "preferences". Change the URL to
http://wso.williams.edu/bookmarks
Now every time you want to share a page you are currently browsing, you can click on "Scuttle This Page" to put it on WSO bookmarks.
("Scuttle" is the name of the software that powers WSO Bookmarks. You can read more about [http://sourceforge.net/projects/scuttle/ Scuttle at SourceForge].)
==Blocking ads==
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=352&vid=1084
*Only compatible with Firefox versions 0.7 - 1.0
==Emacs key bindings==
Emacs is a popular [[Unix ]] text editor with a bunch of crazy key combinations for moving the cursor. Some people are used to them. If you want to romp around text fields in Firefox with Ctrl-A and Ctrl-K and all the rest, check out [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Emacs_Keybindings_(Firefox)].
==Other extensions==
Some sweet ones are [https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=219 the iTunes add on] and [https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=398&application=firefox the Weather add on].
==Making Firefox Pretty==
Besides using a theme that suits your taste, you can also download [http://www.amake.us/software/firefoxy/ Firefoxy] for [[Mac OS X]], which will make the default ugly widgets slightly nicer. Alternatively, you can download [http://www.caminobrowser.org Camino], a [[Mac OS X]] native browser built on the same core as Firefox.
