Fwd: More on Firefox

A quick tech note:

I've been selling my freshman on the Firefox browser as a research tool, and I thought a few of you might be interested, too; so I'm forwarding an email I sent them this morning (attached below).

Here's one teaching advantage: if you're showing several webpages during a class meeting, you can open them all in tabs inside one browser window.  It's a much cleaner, tidier way to do it.  And if you're teaching from a laptop, you can set up all the pages before you come to class.  

fj

Begin forwarded message:

From: Fred Johnson <abjohnson@gmail.com>

Date: October 18, 2005 9:20:40 AM EST

To: Abjohnson280 Blog <abjohnson.ab280@blogger.com>

Subject: More on Firefox

Macworld has just posted a story about the advantages and features of Firefox.  The keyboard commands are for Macs, but the features are the same.  (Windows controls are often slightly different, but often the only difference is that you would use the "control" key instead of Apple's little "apple"/command key.)  One thing that I didn't mention in class is Firefox's excellent search bar (ctrl-f to search on Windows).  For those who'd like to play with more features of the browser, this article has some nice tips.

Kudos to any of you who used Sage and saw this message posted on the course blog before you received the email version. 

fj