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Last revised: 2005-04-14 by Alan Hogan. See all.
Downloading & Installing Firefox
- How can I get Firefox?
- Obtaining a copy of Firefox is simple. (Make sure you have permission
to install software on the computer if you do not own it.)
- Go to www.getfirefox.com and click Free Download.
- I recommend choosing Open if you are asked whether to save or open the installation file.
- After the download finishes, follow the on-screen instructions. You can accept the default options. A nifty feature of Firefox’s installation is that it asks you if it should import your "bookmarks" or "favorites" from Internet Explorer.
- Firefox should work now. Try typing
www.ghscc.com
orwww.google.com
into its Address bar and hitting Enter.
- What if that doesn’t work?
- You will probably need to configure a proxy
connection - not as hard as it sounds!
Just copy the configuration from Internet Explorer.
Here’s the step-by-step:
- Open Internet Explorer. Click the
Tools
menu and thenInternet Options
. - Open the
Connections
tab and then theLAN Settings...
button. - Under the title
Proxy Server
there should be a box with an IP address in it, which might look like82.165.192.24
. Next to it, there should be a box labeledPort:
. It should contain something like8080
. Write both these numbers down and then clickCancel
in both open dialog boxes and close IE. - Now open Firefox (if it isn’t already opened).
Click the
Tools
menu and thenOptions
. You should be in theGeneral
section. - Click the
Connection Settings
button (toward the bottom). - Check the
Manual connection settings
option and then enter the values you wrote down earlier as HTTP Proxy. Then checkUse the same proxy for all protocols
. ClickOK
on both open dialog boxes.
- Open Internet Explorer. Click the
- Keep Reading
- Part Three: Firefox's Nifty Features is all about the parts of Firefox that are the icing on the cake. Some can save you a lot of time!
- Feedback
- I’d love to hear your comments and suggestions on this page or the whole Firefox Soapbox series!