The Firefox browser is the recommended browser on campus. Firefox is secure and helps to protect your computer from unwanted pop up ads.
When on campus, double click on the Firefox icon on your desktop to launch Firefox browser.
The browser window will then open to your home page. 
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To the left of the home page screen is a place to login to the network. Enter username and password to get a list of sections of the Drew home page. This list is a quicker way for students to get to the most used web-based Drew information, software and webmail. If using a computer that is not your own please log out after usage because sensitive information about you can be obtained easily. .bmp)
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| When the browser window opens, the address of the loaded page will be displayed in the navigation bar. |
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| 1. In order to enter a new address, click in the Navigation bar so that the current address is highlighted. |
| 2. Once the current address is highlighted, press delete and start typing in the address of the website you want to go to. |
| 3. After you've typed the address, you can either press <ENTER> or click on the Go button at the end of the Navigation Bar. |
| 4. The webpage will now be displayed in the main area of the window. |
| By default, Firefox uses the Google search engine to search the web for terms, images, etc. |
To use different search engines, go to the drop down box next to the Navigation bar (there will be a Google Icon). Click on the arrow and a menu will appear with search engines such as Yahoo. This is also a search bar and you can type in the term for which you would like to search and press enter. .bmp) |
Click on Manage Search Engines to add or delete search engines. .bmp)
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The user can seach for more search engines by clicking Get More Search Engines. This will take the user to a page with add-ons they can add to firefox.
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| If you try to search using the Navigation Bar, it will bring you to the URL with the term as the address (for example, typing in "happy" will automatically direct you to "www.happy.com"). |
| Type in the word or phrase you want the search engine to find and press the Search button at the end of the Navigation bar. The results will be displayed in the main window from the search engine. |
Instead of opening multiple Firefox windows for each webpage that you want to visit, Firefox has the function to open several different sub-windows, or tabs, within each main browser window. |
To open a new tab, go to File -> New Tab or press CTRL+T. Once there is more than one tab open, you can also press the small icon to the immediate left of the first tab. .bmp)
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To move between tabs, click once on the tab heading or use CTRL+TAB to move between tabs. .bmp)
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