- Tell me everything you know.
(upbeat music)
Let's kick things off
with a good old fashioned question.
What are some of the lesser-known powerful things
that Firefox can do?
Ooh-wee!
I've been waiting all week
for this one, boy honey.
I finally get to tell you about Fire-
- [Speaker] Hey Chenaé,
there's been a change, and not you.
- What?
What do you mean "not you"?
Are you trying to tell me
we're doing another Firefox Academy?
But it's in my contract!
Wait a minute,
you can't do this!
(Chenaé growls)
Hello, students.
I'm your professor, Dr. Naé.
Before our first feature,
I'd like to propose a question
to all of you.
If you were to open a Facebook tab right now,
how many trackers would you find
scooping your data
like ice cream from your profile?
If only there was some way to know.
But that's just it.
There is a way.
And of course it's built right into Firefox.
Open your browsers,
and browse to one of your favorite sites.
If you take a look
just to the left of your URL bar,
you'll notice a shield.
Click that shield
and you'll find the protections dashboard.
Sort of like this.
This dashboard holds very important information
about how Firefox has automatically defended you
from three major privacy threats.
Cookies.
Fingerprints.
Are those actual fingers?
And trackers.
This automatic blocking
happens whether you've opened the dashboard
or not.
But now you can see
when your data is being tracked
while you browse,
so you can start making educated choices
about your browsing habits.
Onward to the next feature.
(cat meowing)
Allow me to paint a scenario for you.
You're lounging on your daybed
browsing recipes on your phone
to send to your personal chef
for dinner tonight.
Very relatable, I know.
You found 17 mouth-watering recipes
and want your chef to make them all.
Why should you choose one?
That's where Pocket steps in.
It's a save button for the internet.
Using the Pocket mobile app,
you can stash those recipes
directly into your pocket.
Now, over on your desktop,
just hit the Pocket button,
select "View My List,"
and there you'll find
all your saved articles.
The features don't stop there.
Pocket also has a discovery page,
and while it is curated
partly by an algorithm,
it is done so
in conjunction with real human eyes
and heads.
Let's examine a new scenario.
You're taking an online class
with an extremely compelling professor.
(applauding)
You prefer to watch the course on your iPad,
but you couldn't be bothered
to copy that link and send it to yourself.
Don't send it.
Sync it.
Tab Sync makes your active desktop tabs
accessible on your mobile devices
and vice versa.
Sounds like you need another visual example.
Take this muffin for instance.
As you can see,
this muffin is muffin number one.
We see that it's 6:00 PM
and we gotta go home.
But to leave our desk
will mean we gotta smash this muffin.
Boomshakalaka!
Lucky for us,
Tab Sync has taken all the contents
of muffin one,
and allowed us to, once again,
enjoy the presence of muffin number one
in our pocket.
Ta-da!
That brings us to our final feature
of today's lecture,
Tab Resurrection.
Now, normally for a resurrection
you'll need 2 tablespoons of salt
blessed by a priest,
or Salt Bae,
2 ounces of holy water,
and a young priest
and an old priest.
However, both priests were unavailable today.
So instead we'll be using
Firefox's built-in
tab resurrection feature.
If you've accidentally
closed your Firefox window
and need to get back
to what you were doing quickly,
you can push the "Restore Session" button
in the history settings
to bring the session back from the dead.
You can even tell Firefox
to do this every time
you open the application,
so you never have to remember
all your go-to URLs ever again.
Oh yeah, and no Salt Bae necessary.
That concludes Firefox 102.
Wish to know more?
Drop your questions in the comments,
or find us on Twitter and Instagram
at Firefox.
As always,
I'm your girl, Chenaé,
and I hope to see you on the flip side.
(upbeat music)