Quick Start Guide
Enter the URL in the address eld to start browsing. Press [Ctrl] + [T] to open a new,
empty tab. To open a link in a new tab, click on the link with your middle mouse
button. When you right-click on the tab, a menu with tab options is superimposed.
This menu allows you to create new tabs, reload the content of a certain tab or all
available tabs and close tabs. You can also change the sequence of the tabs by
dragging it to the desired position and leaving it there.
2.9.1 Finding Information
Firefox oers two dierent types of search options: You can search for information
on the web or on the current webpage using certain terms.
Procedure 2.11: Searching the web
1 To start a search on the web, click on the left icon on the right of the search
bar (adjacent to the places bar) to open a list of search engines.
2 Select the desired search engine and enter your search terms into the input
eld.
3 Press [Enter] to start the search process.
4 If you want to search the current webpage with Firefox or Konqueror, press
[Ctrl] + [F] to display a search bar at the bottom of the window. Enter your
search term there and start the search with the buttons below the search bar
in dierent directors or congure the search options, for example Upper/Lower
case.
Konqueror oers predened web key combinations to quickly search the web. To
search for yast, for example, on the web using the Google search engine enter
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