Firefox Central

New to Firefox? Well you’ve come to the right place. This article covers all the basics and will get you up and running in just a few minutes. It also has tons of links to other great articles that you might want to explore later. Choose the page that opens when you start Firefox or click the Home button. Open a tab with the webpage you want to use as your home page. More options can be found in the home page article. Pick your favorite search engine with Firefox's built-in Search bar. Just click the search icon, on the left side of the search bar, to pick the one you want. Just start typing into the search bar and pick the search engine you want. Learn more search tricks with the Search bar article. Save your favorite sites. To create a bookmark, click the star in the toolbar. For more information, see the bookmarks article. We like to call Firefox’s address bar the "Awesome Bar" because it quickly finds places you've visited before. Tip: You can also do a web search from here. Tabs tabs tabs!

PopupTest - test your popup blocker software and download software Plugins :: Find Plugins How can Firefox help me? In the future, Firefox will update plugins for you. Until then, you should regularly check this page and update your plugins to stay safe. Which Plugins do I have? We automatically detected your plugins above, to view your installed plugins in Firefox follow these steps: Open the Tools menu. Want to spread the word? Help your friends stay safe online! How do I disable a plugin? In Firefox: Open the Tools menu. Caution: disabling a plugin means that you will no longer be able to do certain things.

Internet Explorer and the CSS box model One of the differences between Internet Explorer and standards compliant Web browsers that cause a lot of trouble for CSS beginners is the CSS box model. Since the box model is what browsers use to calculate an element’s total width and height, it is quite understandable that different browsers producing different results can be both confusing and frustrating. How the CSS box model works has been explained by others many times already. If you already know how the different box models work and how to handle Internet Explorer, there is nothing new for you here. The CSS box model diagram Here is a simple diagram showing how the dimensions of an element are related in CSS: For the purposes of this article, all browsers handle the margin property the same way when calculating an element’s total width, so I’ll be concentrating on the padding and border properties. The W3C Box model total width = margin-left + border-left + padding-left + width + padding-right + border-right + margin-right 1. 2.

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