Product Description

• Firefox For Dummies gives you the inside scoop on the exciting new browser from the Web wizard that got it started. The book's author, Blake Ross, began developing Firefox as a teenager. Once available to the world, the simple and powerful tool was an instant hit claiming a sizable share of the Web browser market with over 140 million downloads.
• In this book Blake not only gives you the lowdown on how to use Firefox for safe Web searching, but he also shares his insight into how the product came to life. It's a combination of practical tech insight and a good story that is rare in computer books.
• Topics covered include downloading and installing Firefox, creating a home page, searching with Google, creating customized themes and toolbars, using tabbed browsing, downloading and saving files, maintaining security and privacy, eliminating annoying popups, and adding Firefox extensions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #139604 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-11
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From the Back Cover
Make your online world safer, easier, and a lot more fun, for free!

Firefox is a lot like a For Dummies book — designed to make things easier for the rest of us. Now, one of the guys who invented it shows you how to use the browser made for people, not programmers. This book shows how you can view multiple Web pages at one time, how you can easily move your favorite links and bookmarks from your old browser into Firefox, how Firefox keeps you safe online, and much more.

Discover how to

• Acquire and install Firefox
• Make the transition from another browser
• Use Firefox's innovative tabbed browsing
• Manage bookmarks with ease
• Maintain online privacy and security
• Customize your browser

About the Author
Blake Ross discovered computers when he was 4 and hasn’t had time to eat since then. He began working at Netscape at 14 and cofounded the Firefox project two years later to make the Web easy to use for plain old human beings. He also cofounded the SpreadFirefox.com community evangelism project, which has changed the face of software marketing and distribution. Blake was featured on the cover of Wired Magazine in early 2005, and he has since been featured in dozens of international publications and television shows to promote computing simplicity. He is on leave from Stanford University, where he is an undergraduate.
Blake is currently working on a new project with some of the original Firefox team. If you enjoy Firefox, you’ll enjoy what’s coming next, so sign up at www.blakeross.com to hear when it launches.

Customer Reviews

Another useful Dummies book
Although Firefox is coming up on version 3 and this book is for a much earlier version, most of what it said pertained to the version that I was using. LOTS of tricks, shortcuts and useful information. I hope they come out with a new book for the newest version, but this book is a gem despite being slightly outdated. Firefox is customizable and very user friendly. The more I play with Firefox, the more I like it. And this book helps add the joy to "rediscovering the Web".

Firefox for Dummies
The product was as I expected it to be. It answered the questions I had.

Outdated Book
I bought this book expecting to see examples of actual Firefox pages that matched the screen display. However, the book is so outdated that the figures in the book do not reflect what is shown on the actual Firefox screen. I've been ripped off...