firefox manual old version downloads The Firefox Manual - A Beginner's Guide. The first version of Firefox was released in 2004 and since then, some 230 million people world-wide (or 20% of the 1.2 billion strong Internet population) are using Firefox as their primary web browser. The next graph illustrates the Firefox development process at Mozilla. A core set of 400 developers are responsible for the code that runs Firefox while the rest is a community driven effort. For instance, there are around five hundred people, outside the core developers, who localize Firefox into over 60 languages. Taking that community effort to the next level, 25 writers (some of them from Mozilla) collaborated over two days to produce an online 110 pages long Firefox Manual. It’s a visual guide (with plenty of screenshots) to help you learn everything about Firefox browser from using tabs to downloading files to using themes & plugins. The manual is under “free documentation” and also available for download as a PDF ebook. As power users, you probably know most things that are mentioned in the Firefox manual but you may still want to pass a link of this manual to someone who has just switched (or is planning to make a switch) to Firefox. Learn the Basics: get started. Learn all you need to know to get started with Firefox. Keyboard shortcuts - Perform common Firefox tasks quickly. This is a list of Firefox keyboard shortcuts for working with tabs, bookmarks, searching the web, playing media files and more. Bookmarks in Firefox. Bookmarks are links to web pages that make it easy to get back to your favorite places. Learn the basics of making and managing bookmarks. How to make Firefox and websites go full screen. The Full Screen feature lets you expand the Firefox browser to fill up your whole screen. This article explains how to turn it on and off. Profile Manager - Create, remove or switch Firefox profiles. Firefox stores your personal information and settings in a profile folder. Learn to work with different profiles on Firefox. How do I delete a bookmark? This article describes different methods to delete pages from your Firefox Bookmarks. View PDF files in Firefox or choose another viewer. You can view PDF files in Firefox using the built-in viewer or with a third-party tool. Learn more. Where to find and manage downloaded files in Firefox. The Downloads panel and Library keep track of files you download. We'll show you how to access, manage, change settings and find your files. Bookmark Tags - Categorize bookmarks to make them easy to find. You can add "tags" to bookmarks. These tags are used to help categorize bookmarks so you can find them easier. Learn how they work. Use mouse shortcuts to perform common tasks in Firefox. This is a list of Firefox mouse shortcuts that you can use to navigate websites, work with tabs, zoom in and out, and more. How to search the contents of the current page for text or links. When you are viewing a website in Firefox, you can search for words, phrases or links on the page. This article explains how it works. Pinned Tabs - keep favorite websites open and just a click away. Pinned Tabs (or App Tabs) allow you to keep your favorite web apps, like Facebook and Gmail, open and just a click away. This article explains how to use them. Use bookmarklets to quickly perform common web page tasks. This article explains what bookmarklets are, and how to install and use them. Browsing history in Firefox - View the websites you have visited. Firefox keeps track of the websites you visit when you browse the Web. Learn how to view, search and sort your browsing history. How to search IMDB, Wikipedia and more from the address bar. Learn how to use Smart Keywords to search a specific website directly from the Firefox address bar. Search with the Firefox address bar. Learn how the address bar makes it easy to search the Web, find bookmarks or pages you visited before, use search engines and more. Create a desktop shortcut to a website. Learn how to easily make a shortcut on your desktop that will open Firefox and take you to a favorite website. Sort your bookmarks to quickly find the ones you want. We'll show you how to sort or rearrange your bookmarks in the sidebar or Library window view. How to print web pages in Firefox. This articles covers the basics of print settings and formatting options in Firefox. How do I use the Firefox spell checker? Firefox automatically checks your spelling as you type. Available options include adding dictionaries and removing words added by accident. Accessibility features in Firefox - Make Firefox and web content work for all users. Learn about Firefox features that make the browser and content accessible to those who have low vision, no vision or limited ability to use a keyboard or mouse. Use tabs to organize lots of websites in a single window. By displaying a website in a tab, Firefox lets you have multiple websites open inside a single window. This article covers the basics of using tabs. Save web pages for later with Pocket for Firefox. Pocket for Firefox lets you save web pages for later in one click. Access your Pocket list on your computer, phone or tablet. Firefox release notes - What's new and known issues. Links to release notes for Firefox and Firefox for Android. Volunteer. Grow and share your expertise with others. Answer questions and improve our knowledge base. Software Update:Manually Installing a MAR file. We strongly encourage users to stay up to date by installing the most recent version of Firefox and allowing it to update itself through the built-in mechanism. The built-in process does a number of important things including CPU, OS and other checks before proceeding. Overview. This document explains how to manually apply a MAR file to an existing installation to update it. This is useful in case you wish to patch a Mozilla based application without running the application itself. The process requires at least a general knowledge of using a command shell and file system paths. These instructions apply to the following applications though they can also be applied to other Mozilla based applications: Firefox 3.0.x and above SeaMonkey 2.0.x and above Thunderbird 2.0.x and above. Where to get a mar file. Below are examples of where localized mar files for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows can be downloaded from. You will need to navigate to the version directory, to the updates directory, and then to the platform directory for the mar file that you want to apply. Firefox (including ESR) http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ SeaMonkey http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/ Thunderbird (including ESR) http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/ Installing from the command line. Changes made to all applications in version 56.0 require updating or installing version 56.0 of the application before updating to a newer version. The user account used to perform the update MUST have the appropriate permissions (e.g. Full Control on Windows, write, read, and execute on Linux and Mac OS X, etc.) on the application's installation directory that is being updated and on the outside directory defined below. If you are updating an application on Windows Vista or greater with UAC enabled then you may need to launch cmd.exe with "Run as administrator" (available in the context menu when right clicking cmd.exe) as well. All paths MUST be full paths using the platform convention. All paths MUST not contain traversal directives in the path. Paths containing spaces passed to the updater MUST be quoted (e.g. "C:\Program Files\temp"). If you quote a path to a directory and include the trailing \ you must escape the \ with a \ so the " isn't escaped (e.g. "C:\Program Files\temp\\"). To use a partial mar file you MUST be updating the build it was created from (e.g. for Firefox firefox-3.5.6-3.5.7.partial.mar can only update Firefox 3.5.6). Windows does not always expand environment variables that represent paths so if you have problems using environment variables switch to using paths. Steps for Windows. Create a directory outside of the application's installation directory to be updated (e.g. C:\app-update\ ). This directory will be referred to as the outside directory throughout the instructions below so please make a note of its location. Grant the user account you are using Full Control permissions on this directory if it doesn't have these permission already. Copy updater.exe from the application's installation directory that is to be upgraded into the outside directory. If you would like to display the updater user interface while it is applying the update also copy the updater.ini into the outside directory. Download the appropriate .mar file and put it into the outside directory you created (see Where to get a mar file). Rename the mar file you downloaded to update.mar. Open a command prompt by running cmd.exe. On Windows Vista or greater you may need to launch cmd.exe with "Run as administrator" (available in the context menu when right clicking cmd.exe). Change the working directory to the application's installation directory by using the cd command (e.g. for Firefox cd "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox" or cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox" ). Important: running the update from within another directory will fail to update the existing installation properly with Firefox 3.6.x and below, SeaMonkey 2.0.x and below, and Thunderbird 3.1.x and below.