Firefox - Tips

Congratulations, you have nicely configured Firefox to work well for you.  Tabs are a very nice feature.  Here a few tips on using Firefox.  This concludes the tutorial on Firefox.  Enjoy!

• New Tabs - Tabs are a great addition to browsers.  In Firefox, you can open a new tab by clicking the "New Tab" icon next to the "House", and then clicking on the "House" icon to go to your Home  Page.  Two quick steps and you have a new tab opened, without disturbing your original tab.
• Open Tab with Mouse Wheel - A little known feature of the Mouse Wheel is that it can act as a button. (This is equally true for Internet Explorer as Firefox).  When you are on a link (shown by a blue word with an underline), push down with your Mouse Wheel until it "clicks".  This action will open a new tab with the contents of the link you had selected.  Very cool.
• Close a Tab with Mouse Wheel - You can close a tab by clicking the red "X" on the tab.  However, you can also close it  by placing the mouse cursor anywhere on the tab, and clicking the Mouse Wheel (push down until it clicks, without rolling it).  Voila!, the tab will close.
• Increase/Decrease the Font Size - Words too hard to read?  Hold down the Control Key on your keyboard (usually labeled "CTRL"), and roll your Mouse Wheel.  You will instantly see the font size change.  Rolling the wheel towards you makes the fonts smaller, and rolling the wheel away from you makes the fonts larger.   Remember, you must hold the CTRL key down all the while you are doing this.
• Increase/Decrease Picture Sizes - Have you ever seen a photo on the Internet, but wanted to see it bigger, to see more detail?  This feature requires the "Image Zoom" addon be installed.  Position the mouse cursor on a photo on the Internet, hold down the RIGHT click button, and roll the Mouse Wheel.  Rolling it towards you makes the picture bigger.  Rolling it away from you makes the picture smaller.   Right clicking on the picture, and just "clicking" the Mouse Wheel (that is, push straight down on it until it clicks, without rolling it), will cause the picture to return to its original size.  So will refreshing the page.