For Internet Explorer Users
If you’ve been using Microsoft® Internet Explorer, you'll find that it's easy to begin
using Mozilla for browsing the web, managing your mail, and much more.
Note: This information only applies to Mozilla for Windows and Mac OS.
Mozilla and Internet Explorer Terminology Differences
About Your IE Favourites
Your IE Favourites are imported automatically. To access them,
open the Bookmarks menu and choose Imported IE Favourites.
(NB: the spelling of this item will depend on the language pack being
used at the time of profile creation.)
Browser Features
- Tabbed Browsing: Instead of opening a
separate browser window for each site you want to visit, you can open multiple sites within the same window
and tab between them. You can also set a group of tabs as
your home page.
- Pop-up Window Controls: Lets you allow or suppress
both popup and popunder windows.
- Sidebar: Customise Mozilla with
frequently accessed content and tools such as news, stock quotes, your bookmarks, browser history and many
other options.
- Profile Manager: Create different
profiles, each with its own bookmarks, preferences, mail settings and so on. This is useful if you must
share Mozilla on the same computer with other people or if you want to keep your work and personal settings
separate.
- Cookie Manager: Lets you change
what Mozilla will do when accepting cookies through its support for the
P3P privacy standard.
- Image Manager: Enables you to
disable images from certain websites, or disable them all together. This is useful if you wish to decrease
the amount of time it takes for websites to load.
Other Features
In the lower left-hand corner of your browser, a component bar gives you quick access to several useful
features:
- Mail & Newsgroups: Conveniently manage all
your Internet communications. You can set up and maintain multiple business and personal mail accounts and
Internet newsgroups, all from one window. You can import mail
and settings from other popular email programs.
- Address Books: Create an address book or
import contact information from other popular mail programs.
- Composer: Create, edit, and publish your pages
on the web with this built-in web page editor.
- ChatZilla: Built-in IRC client that lets you chat with other people over IRC networks.
Keyboard Shortcuts
You will notice that Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla share many of the same shortcut keys. For a
full list of shortcut keys, see the List of Mozilla Keyboard Shortcuts.
24 September 2003
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