Articles tagged with: 'firefox'

The Internet is probably the largest academic and commercial collaboration in history. It provides numerous sources of information and means of communication.

This section of the guide concentrates on the programs that you will need to make the best use of the resources that the Internet provides.

These resources are provided by servers using protocols which can be accessed by client programs on your computer.

Mozilla Firefox is the guide's choice of web browser, and has a long and interesting history. Originally the Mozilla project was the developers name for the Netscape browser, which was eventually released as an open source project. The browser was later heavily modified, and released to the world as Mozilla Firefox.

The new browser enjoyed an immediate success, introducing tabbed panes, and new security features. One sign of this success was that it caused Microsoft to develop and release a new version of the Internet Explorer browser with similar features.

Apart from advising you on choosing from the enormous amount of software available, and showing you how to install, and uninstall the software, the guide also provides pragmatic information on using the programs.

The goal of these tutorials is to provide you with just enough knowledge to make you reasonably competent in the shortest time. They also serve as a basis to become proficient in using one or more of the programs, should you wish to invest further time on them, by offering pointers to more detailed information available on the Internet.

Mozilla Firefox is the guide's choice of web browser. This tutorial will explain using Firefox to browse web sites, among other things. If you haven't already done so, you may want to read about installing Mozilla Firefox in this article.

The following are the download links for all the software discussed in the guide. It can be used to collect all the necessary files on to your hard disk before you use the articles to install the software. It also serves as a reference to the latest versions, which may differ from the versions shown in the various guide articles, as those articles are updated somewhat less frequently.

The downloads are presented as a set of tables, one for each section of the guide. Each table gives the program name, links to the web site and where you can download the software, the current version number, which files to download, and the associated guide article.