Odds are pretty good that right now you are using Chrome or Safari to browse
the Internet. Well, that was me as well up until
recently when I switched over to Firefox and today on Tech Tip Tuesday I'm gonna
share with you my reasons for doing so and maybe you should give Firefox a try
Hey welcome to another Tech tip Tuesday my name is Liron Segev where every
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This is Firefox Quantum. Now before we start it can do pretty much the same thing as
Chrome does this is not what this discussion is all about it's a little
bit faster it uses less resources then Chrome, but to me it's all about the
customization because a browser needs builds to work for me in my environment
and this has plenty of customization in place
so let's start to click the three little dots, click on customize and the first
thing you'll notice is you've got a whole bunch of built-in options that you
can simply drag and drop onto the toolbar so if you like to do things in
private window also known as incognito for whatever reason to simply drag it on
to the toolbar, zooming in and out, be able to search for something, again it's
all about drag and drop which makes it really nice and we user-friendly!
Good news is that with Firefox quantum you'd no longer defaults to Yahoo you can
actually select any of the search engines and you simply do that by going
into search go down to the bottom and making your selection saying well
I want my default to be Google for example. Now the other cool feature is
something called one-click search engine now you can enable or disable some of
these as you wish but what it does is let me show you open up a new tab
quickly let's just say you want to search for something very specific like
the Canon g5x battery because I want to buy it I could go down to the bottom and
say don't search the Web but rather just search Amazon because that's where I
know I'm gonna get my results
with Firefox Quantum working across multiple devices is actually a pleasure
it synchronizes of course the bookmarks but you can also send individual tabs to
your mobile device so for example if you're reading an article it's not
necessary a bookmark that entire page or the entire article but you can just send
that tab to your mobile device and carry on reading from the point where you left off
To extend the functionality of the browser you've got something called
add-ons and add-ons are essentially applications to give you more
functionality within the browser so for example I do a lot of translating to
different languages so I looked at something called Google Translate. Over
1000 results this is the one I like to use it's called to Google Translate now
when it comes up to install it you simply click on add to Firefox
So now whenever I open up a web page if there's a section that I want translated into
another language I simply highlight it, right-click, choose
the to Google Translate and it will take that little highlighted section and it
will open up Google Translate and translate it. The default language is
Spanish but you can go into the settings and change it for the default to be any
of the other languages that Google can handle
this is one of the most exciting thing I've seen on Firefox it's called a multi
account containers so you know when you log into your profile live automatically
loves you to Gmail automatically logs into Facebook; what happens if you want
to work with your work Facebook or your work Gmail
well multi account container allows you to do that have separate profiles that
are logged in by default when you click on it even if it's on the same computer
before you can install this particular add-on you're gonna have to sign up for
something called the Test Pilot and those are basically programs which are
what Firefox called their experiments once you do that you'll get this little
tab and in there you've got these options personal work banking shopping
each one of those is essentially its own little profile separated from the other
let me show you what's how that works in the real world. So now I'm logged in by
default and I'm gonna go to something like my Facebook page when I do that
I can see it automatically just logs me into my profile now if I go to my
container and this time I'm going to choose work it opens up with a different
tab at a different color and this time when I go to facebook.com it doesn't
just log me in, it's waiting for my username and password! Now that's pretty
cool same computer, no longer having to log in
incognito just to test something or to log into a different profile it works
with Gmail it works with basically any program essentially it keeps the two
worlds separate so it doesn't use any other cookies to automatically sign in
of course these tabs are customizable I couldn't find a way to add additional
ones but they do the 4 that they give you you can just rename them, choose a different
icon and a different color so make it work for you. Now the other feature that
I want to show you is something called open by default so if you for example
and go into PayPal and PayPal is always your work one or under shopping you can say
every time I use PayPal open up in a specific profile
so side-view this is great for all those multitaskers out there who want to do
two things at once. So here you can enable side view and click on add and it
will simply edit and install it and now you have two windows within your browser
window so let me show you how that works in practice so let's just say we want to
have Twitter on the one side let's load it up
so here I have my Twitter feed now if I want to copy and paste between
something in Twitter or in another application or I want to Google
something or research something that I've seems one of my followers site I
can do that why not have putting another tab but I can click on the side view now
once I do that I can switch these things around of course to Google on the one
side I've got Twitter going on the other side and I can use both at the same time
so whilst initially it doesn't sound too handy because you can do the same thing
with multiple tabs but there's something about being able to see both sets of
information on the same screen especially when you're researching
information and you want to have multiple sources you could just do that
straight away using a side view
so that is why I switched over to Firefox! I think it's a great browser really has made a big difference in my life maybe
you're thinking of doing the same let me know in the comments below
maybe you're currently using Firefox are there any cool extensions or Add-Ons
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Cheers for now!