If you use Firefox and you have a scroll wheel mouse, you can do some pretty neat things in your Web browser! If you have used Firefox for awhile now, you probably know that you can use tabbed browsing, which means you can create a new tab and then have several Web sites open and ready to view, without having so many open windows filling up the bottom of your desktop area.
Well, you can use your mouse wheel to close out some of those tabs when you're done browsing in a certain one. Go ahead and click on the "Open a new tab" icon and go to whichever Web site you would like to visit. Once you're done looking around, just make sure the tab you want to close is selected and then click your mouse wheel. That tab will automatically close and you can go to another site or whatever you'd like to do.
You can also use your mouse wheel with the Back and Forward buttons. Just click the middle mouse button (the wheel) and away you go. Here's one more! Try it with the Home page icon. Just highlight the icon, click the wheel once and you're instantly taken to your homepage. You can do all of these things with just a quick click on the scroll wheel. Who knew Firefox could be so much fun?!
Want to learn a little more about Firefox 3?
First of all, Firefox 3 has stronger filters and protection against malware, phishing Web sites, cookies and other tools that can compromise your privacy and security. A malware warning shows up when you visit Web sites that are known to install malicious software. Plus, by default, Firefox 3 is set up not to show the content of dangerous sites and it also double checks with Google’s ever-growing blacklist of phishing Web sites. With all of that in place, you can now feel even better about switching over to the new Firefox 3 Web browser!
More Firefox 3 Features
Improved Download Manager
With the new Firefox 3 Download Manager, you'll never have to wonder where a download came from or where it went ever again. Gran Paradiso’s Download Manager lets you search through recent files, resume big downloads after a crash or restart and it allows you to keep an eye on your transfers via the status bar
Native Looks for Every System
Your Web browser is a serious part of your computing life, so having it look like nothing else on your system can be quite frustrating. Luckily, Firefox’s designers made system integration a priority with the new release and it shows! I mean, even Windows XP and Vista’s button layouts have subtle differences in color and shading. There are differences at deeper levels too, with cover flow styling for the add ons manager for OS X, transparencies in key places in Vista and OS X and other tweaks that make your browser feel like a natural extension of your computer.
This Web site offers free games you can download and print out! To begin, click on the Enter button and then click on the Agree button to agree to their terms and conditions. Once you’ve done all of that, you’re whisked away to a huge listing of different games you can play!
There are three main categories: Games, Activities and Quizzes. They are then divided into subcategories:
Games – Here you will find word games, origami tutorials, things to draw, mazes and much more.
Activities – Here you will find activities you can do or help others with. I think this section would be awesome for teachers looking for different kinds of things to do with their students. This section is also divided up by subject matter: Plants, Animals, Geology and Weather.
Quizzes – This section is also divided up by subject matter. You will find quizzes on Animals, Night Sky, Weather and Geology.
To use the different sections, you’ll need a .PDF reader, such as Adobe Acrobat, which you can download here for free.
http://www.waterfordpress.com/entergame.htmlThings about Google you never knew
Windows all versions
Google Newsletter
You have read Google’s blog, but did you read their newsletter?. It contains Google's progress from the day it was launched.
Google’s Search Statistics For 9/11/01
… and a tribute.
Google Zeitgeist
What you see here is a cumulative snapshot of what people are searching for.
Google’s Help To Build Better Query
Some useful search tips from the Google masters themselves.
Google Doodles
Few more: Uncle Sam, Microsoft, Mac, Linux, BSD.
A really great, real time collection of how people go wrong with spelling while searching for Birteny spears aaa Britney spears
With the latest McCain "Spears, Hilton, Obama" ad, Britney's popularity is soaring again. But, why can't people spell her name?
Google’s Librarian Central Newsletter
They do take care of everyone.
And a precursor to Google in the pre-internet days - not a Google page but worth a look.
What Punctuation Mark Are You?
Our site of the week this week is just a quiz. It's just a quiz that will give you the answer you have been searching for since birth: "What kind of punctuation mark would I be?If you visit our site of the week, your lifelong wondering will be over
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