This article provides assistance with locating Firefox Documentation.
You will need to learn to use and to install
keyword shortcuts
to get the most out of this material.
For HELP with Firefox in General and the new version see: [Release Notes]
[HELP]
[Documentation]
Firefox Documentation Locators
This Site Provides Lots of Documentation (#site)
My (Firefox Customizations (notes) (firefox.htm) provides a large list of extensions that I use with Firefox, but you can use keyword shortcuts
of addons: and addons2: included later to find others.
Additional pages cover
Setup (initial installation), Toolbars & Context menus,
Bookmarklets,
Bookmarks,
Keyword shortcuts, and Tabbed browsing.
Short topics: Google,
Default Browser,
Firefox Portable,
Profile,
New Profile,
Quick Launch (Windows),
Use of Mouse,
Use of Tabs,
Search / Google,
New Profile,
Search Engine assistance in Generating
Preparation in using this document (#preparation)
Viewing Web Pages (#viewing)
See an Outline based on HTML Header Statements: Generate the Table of Contents (Alt+O) for this page and other webpages by installing the Document Map extension, then from the View menu, click on
sidebar and then Document Map.
OpenBook extension (#openbook)
Please install the “OpenBook” extension to help you with bookmark properties. In fact it would be very difficult to work with
bookmarking especially in Firefox 3 without this extension.
Sources of Documentation (#sources)
- Firefox Customization (Notes), my own site (some
of the site topics were listed above.
http://www.google.com/search?query=%S&sitesearch=www.mvps.org%2Fdmcritchie%2Ffirefox%2F -- site search
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/%S -- brings up a specific article
- Firefox Help File (F1), contains quite a bit of information that you
need immediately, and to help understand keyboard shortcuts, and menu items.
Also be aware that the "Help" menu item has several additional items including "Help About"
that contains version information.
- MozillaZine Knowledge Base, The purpose of the MozillaZine Knowledge Base is to help gather support, resources, hints, tips and answers to FAQs (frequently asked questions) for Mozilla products, all in one place [News]. Each article provides comprehensive (in-depth) help information about individual topics. Lacks Tutorials. Suggest keyword: "::" (two colons)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=site%3Akb.mozillazine.org+-intitle%3Atalk+%S&btnG=Search
- Support Mozilla Org KB (SUMO),
created to provide support documentation at Mozilla. Unfortunately it is
basically a dumbing down and theft of MozillaZine articles within a non-professional
comic book styling. Even former articles at mozilla.org have received the
same treatment in being moved to the SUMO KB. Designed for people who don't
know what a browser is and don't need to know. Suggest keyword: "sumokb:"
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asupport.mozilla.com/kb+%S
Menus
Options Window as in Tools (menu), Options
I'm sorry to have to report that there were good articles written by David Tenser and those too appear to have
been converted to this format, with loss of valuable information into a comic book style.
- YouTube – Firefox Video Tutorials
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=firefox+tutorials+&%S
- Support:Article list - MozillaWiki (down Mar 26, 2008, server issues due to 2.0.0.13 and Fx3 Beta, and AMO, and barfy webpages don't help either) [archive]
provides the framework for adding more material to support.mozilla.org aimed at a limited
audience that is assumed to be smart enough to read documentation but not smart
enough to select a good solution if offered choices. Aimed at non-technical "MOM", a person
who did not install Firefox but is going to try to do what...
Tutorials (#tutorials)
User Documentation (#userdoc)
Some Selected listings from dmoz.org
(The Open Source Directory) (#dmoz)
Firefox Keyword Shortcuts to Find Additional Documentation (#kws)
Many of the keyword shortcuts involve use of the Google search engine (includes cheatsheet also available for sidebar). Learning to use it properly will get you well on your way to finding
almost anything on the web. Suggest installing the Customize Google extension.
Keyword shortcuts make bookmarks much more powerful and may include use of substitution “%S” and may in fact also be bookmarklets (using JavaScript). Listed below are some keyword shortcuts, bookmarks, and
bookmarklets that will help you locate documentation, and extensions.
I maintain most of my "public" keywords on my personal toolbar
in a folder named "K". Those that apply specifically to me or to my
local area are maintained in another bookmarks folder not on my
personal bookmarks toolbar. Makes it easier to create them in
one place quickly and to find them quickly if I forget the name.
| keyword | description (suggest including keyword at beginning of description) |
|---|
| :: | -- Search MozillaZine articles
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=site%3Akb.mozillazine.org+-intitle%3Atalk+&btnG=Search |
| addons: | -- Searches addons.mozilla.org (Google)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site%3Aaddons.mozilla.org+inurl%3Afirefox+install-now+-inurl%3Aen-US+-inurl%3Aapplication+-inurl%3Arecommended+-inurl%3Aversions+-inurl%3Aphp+ |
| addons:s | -- Search addons.mozilla.org with it's own search (Mozilla)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=%s&status=4amp;&show=50 |
| addons2: | -- Searches both addons.mozilla.org and mozdev.org (Google)
http://www.google.com/search?q=(site%3Aaddons.mozilla.org+inurl%3Afirefox)+OR+site%3Amozdev.org+ |
| addons100: | -- Search addons.mozilla.org with it's own search,
I guess this will have to do as a replacement
for the advanced search, pick your category (Mozilla)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=%S&cat=all&show=100&sort=name&exp=on
|
| addons2: | -- Searches both addons.mozilla.org and mozdev.org (Google)
http://www.google.com/search?q=(site%3Aaddons.mozilla.org+inurl%3Afirefox)+OR+site%3Amozdev.org+ |
| sumo2: | -- Searches support.mozilla.org/kb (Google)
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amozilla.com+%S |
| ff: | -- Specific file at David McRitchie's Firefox pages (file.htm)
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/%S |
| ffs: | -- Search David McRitchie's Firefox pages (Google)
http://www.google.com/search?query=%S&sitesearch=www.mvps.org%2Fdmcritchie%2Ffirefox%2F |
| ffwiki: | -- Searches Wikipedia for Firefox items (Google)
ffwiki: search Wikipedia for Firefox articles
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:en.wikipedia.org+-inurl:User_talk+firefox+%S |
| g: | -- Searches Google (include Firefox in search)
http://www.google.com/search?q=%S++++-hth+-vbulletin+-inurl%3Aforum+-training.available+-shop.now |
| gff: | -- Search mozilla.org OR mozillazine.org
http://www.google.com/search?q=%S+firefox+site%3Amozilla.org%20+OR+site%3Akb.mozillazine.org%20+%28inurl%3Afirefox%20+OR+inurl%3Akb%20+OR+inurl%3Adoc%20+OR+inurl%3Awiki%29+-inurl%3Asearch.php+-inurl%3Aqa |
| ggff: | -- Searches Firefox newsgroups (See
Search page for search operands)
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group%3A*mozilla.support.firefox*+%s&hl=en&num=100&%s |
| ggff:all | -- Check all postings last month (See
Search page for search operands)
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=%S&num=100&scoring=r&hl=en&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=mozilla.*&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=m&safe=off
|
| similar: | -- Find Similar websites (similar:)
javascript:void(location.href='http://www.similicio.us/search.php?url='+location.href.split(%22/%22)[2]+'+%s&sourceid=firefox')
|
| ss: | -- Site Search stay within domain of active tab
javascript:void(location.href='http://www.google.com/search?&q=site:'+location.href.split(%22/%22)[2]+'+%s&sourceid=firefox') |
Auxiliary Documentation:
| bug: | -- Brings up the bug when number is supplied
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=%S |
| bugs: | -- Searches bugzilla for bugs (Mozilla search)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance%20desc&bug_status=__all__&product=Firefox&content=%S |
| bugsq: | -- Searches bugzilla for bugs (Mozilla quick search)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=%s |
Extensions at addons.mozilla.org (#addons)
The addon pages have removed version information, placed the important size of the
file and the developer's comments in a hidden area look for “Advanced Details”
and click on “expand”. The “reasoning” can be found in
Oh, and you have to login now to get a version that is “not compatible”.
Some Firefox and Mozilla Blogs (#blogs)
You are not likely to find much in the way of tutorials and
manuals in the form of blogs, but you may find them
interesting.
- Asa Dotzler - Firefox and more,
- Chris Ilias’ Blog, Help via Newsgroups, specifically support.mozilla.firefox (Please try to find answers by searching Firefox documentation first)
- John’s Blog, John Lilly, Mozilla CEO, (reversed colors),
interviewed 2008-01-14
- Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Operator,
- MozillaZine Weblogs, MozillaZine Hosted Weblogs
- Planet Mozilla, gathers daily feeds
from over 200 Firefox bloggers such as John Lilly,
Mike Schroepfer,
Asa Dotzler, Alex Faaborg, Vladimir Vukiecevic, Stuart Parmenter, Chris Beard, Jonas Sicking, Jay Sullivan, Brendan Eich, Damon Sicore, and Melissa Shapiro.
Reset (F5)
bookmarklets
paren tips
HREF visible
To expand all of the links: use the HREF visible button above
- This page is practically all links, so not likely to place any more in this area.
- Firefox Newsgroups