Getting Foxy - Part 1
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The official browser of this years challenge is the firefox browser.
You can download it here
You can watch how to do this and then see how I “hot-up” firefox for Internet Marketing
You can download the much smaller and much better looking hi def quicktime file here
Ed
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:35 am
Just for reference, all the add-ons for FireFox Ed mentions are available at the firfox site except ‘SEO FOR FIREFOX’ you need to get that add-on here: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:46 am
Am I doing something wrong? When I type in either SEO For Firefox or Google Notebook, it does not locate them. I’ve gotten the rest downloaded but these two are eluding me.
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:38 am
Hi,
Yes I had the same trouble, but no problem here are the links, and a few others, which maybe useful.
Google Notebook requires a Google acc
see http://www.google.com/notebook/
SEO for Firefox is at their own site confusingly called SEOBOOK.com
http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html
If you dont have it I suggest you get FIREBUG, it is a great tool for debugging your your web pages
Firebug
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
Some links that others may need
Del.icio.us
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1532
Fleck
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3908
Scribe Fire
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730
Search Status
http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
Session Mgr
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2324
Stumble Upon
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:56 am
Hi Janet
I am ahving the same trouble. IT seems that google notebook is not there. I downloaded SEOquake as it sounded like the same program. I could be wrong though
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:59 am
Hi,
I had the same trouble. but no problem here are the links.
Google Notebook requires a Google Acc - but its free
http://www.google.com/notebook/
SEO for Firefox is available at its own site confusingly called SEOBOOK
http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html
If you dont already have it, I would recommend Firebug as being useful to debug web page errors.
Firebug
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
This is a list of the other addons I use which ED suggested.
Del.icio.us
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1532
Fleck
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3908
Scribe Fire
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730
Search Status
http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
Session Mgr
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2324
Stumble Upon
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138
Nickv
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:17 am
Your link “get it here” links to http://www.friefox.com - you have a typo
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:26 am
search for google notebook at google links are there
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:42 am
The Google notebook extension is available from http://www.google.co.uk/notebook - look at the top it says:
Tip: Download the browser extension to add notes from any webpage.
Restart firefox and away you go…
July 23rd, 2007 at 7:40 am
dont know why but my posts dont appear
July 23rd, 2007 at 7:44 am
Hi,
I had the same trouble. but no problem here are the links.
Google Notebook requires a Google Acc - but its free
http://www.google.com/notebook/
SEO for Firefox is available at its own site confusingly called SEOBOOK
tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html
If you dont already have it, I would recommend Firebug as being useful to debug web page errors.
Firebug
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
This is a list of the other addons I use which ED suggested.
Del.icio.us
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1532
Fleck
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3908
Scribe Fire
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730
Search Status
http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
Session Mgr
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2324
Stumble Upon
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138
Nickv
July 23rd, 2007 at 7:45 am
seems I ok now ……….but I’m posting from IE and not Firefox !
July 23rd, 2007 at 7:46 am
posting from Firefox just a test
July 23rd, 2007 at 7:47 am
Firefox post
July 23rd, 2007 at 7:48 am
tried two posts from Firefox both failed
July 23rd, 2007 at 8:58 am
Loaded everything but SEO just gives me a ? against every item. Perhaps it will take time to link into the system
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:06 am
click on the ? to show as Ed does in the video
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Thank you SOOOOO much for the QuickTime file! For some reason, streaming video doesn’t work well for me and you’ve saved me hours of frustration by including this. Hope all the vids in the challenge will have that option! Thanks Ed. . . .Stephanie
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Hi,
I see my earlier firefox posts arrived …….eventually
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Hi everyone. This is a test from a newbie.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Thanks Nickv. I appreciate your taking the time to post those links.
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Hi everyone,
Just wanted to say thanks to nickv for posting the links; it saved a lot of headaches for me.
@Ed Dale: Why did you not post the links? For semi-advanced users it is far faster to click on a few links and install the plugins than to watch a video three times trying to catch everything.
Maybe that is just me, though.
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:26 pm
PS: Forgot two things.
1. I also REALLY appreciate the QuickTime format!
2. I wast trying to offer constructive criticism in my last comment. Please don’t take it otherwise!
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:49 pm
just another person performing a test from firefox!!
July 24th, 2007 at 4:19 am
[...] official. Ed Dale has declared Firefox the official web [...]
July 24th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Hi,
Apologies for multiple copies of that list.
I post it once it didnt appear do I reposted over an hour later.
Now it appears every where.
July 24th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Pimp my Firefox
Ok, so my Firefox is officially pimped out. Most of the recommended plugins were ones I already use, but there are a couple that are new to me.
Searchstatus is kind of interesting, although in general I’m pretty skeptical of Alexa rankings (see T…
July 28th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
[...] If you want some insight as to all the cool plugins that can be used to customize your browsing experience then visit this post first from Ed’s blog - Getting Foxy - Part One [...]
July 31st, 2007 at 4:41 pm
I used the links that NickV gave, since I didn’t have any of the Firefox tool box.
For clean water everywhere,
Richard
July 31st, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Can anyone tell me how to install Firefox so that it doesn’t grab my system every time I log on or receive an email or try to go to the net? I uninstalled Firefox because I couldn’t get it to stop activating and I need to be able to use IE 6.0 for one of my consulting contracts. Firefox was a real pain. HELP!
July 31st, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Well!!
Short N sweet, if Ive gotta d/l firefox an use it, NO THANKS!!! A friend changed over to that an he’s had nothing but problems with it!!!!
July 31st, 2007 at 6:17 pm
I’m afraid if Firefox is definately needed for 30 Day Challenge I’m a non-starter, which is quite dissapointing cos 30 dc looks very interesting. Is it really essential?
July 31st, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Thanks Ed,
This really helped. I have all the add ons.
August 1st, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Ok - Firefox 1 done and now getting ready to listen to #2. I’m doing all I can to catch up.
I was in Sacramento taking the Bar last week and then went to San Diego for R&R.
Hope to be up to speed this afternoon.
Jim
California
August 1st, 2007 at 6:29 pm
I am a windows pc user and an internet explorer user. Do I really need to download firefox to do the 30-Day challenge?
Grace
New Hampshire, USA
August 1st, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Fire fox done, and trying to catch up. Thank’s guy’s
August 1st, 2007 at 7:53 pm
I downloaded FireFox but I don’t see the toolbar?
I did not choose FireFox as my default browser. So how do I use this FireFox? Do I show and Hide it at will?
I have to be in the FireFox browser to download the “SEO for FireFox”. So how do I make the browser appear so I can use it?
Grace
New Hampshire, USA
August 2nd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
hey ed, can’t get past the 2 minute mark on the getting foxy part 1, is there a problem with this? or is it just me??? can anyone else offer advice on where i can hear the whole thing fully?? thanks
August 3rd, 2007 at 1:09 am
wow!!! i new fire fox had add ons but i had no idea how useful they really are.
i am having a ball adding new add ons. oh and thank you NICKV for putting the websites for fire fox, especially SEO for FireFox, that helped.
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:51 am
Thanks for the links Nickv - this was really helpful and saved me hours of searching !
August 5th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Hello!
I’m trying to download the seo book. but when i press on click here to download i get the message:
Firefoxt preovented this site (tools.seobook.com) from asking you to install software on your computer.
What on earth is this? And how can I install this seobook?
Anyone?
Thanks,
Teri
August 5th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Well d ya know you can use Foxy tunes to listen to the 30dc podcast while browsing….
August 10th, 2007 at 5:37 am
Hi, I’m new to the 30dc. Found it on Stumble Video late last night. Was up to 3am and early this morning catching up, and I’m hooked. I’ve got to say this is really fantastic. Looking forward to increasing my site traffic. One of the best sites i’ve some across this year, can’t thank you guys enough.
Once more comment @ RavinSixties. Don’t knock programs just because one person you know has problems with it, you don’t know what they’ve done to their computer. I run a pc repair company, and unlike Norton and IE, Firefox is one of the biggest killers of work I know. Everytime a customer comes to me with viruses and spyware, i put on Firefox and i never here form them with virus/spyware problems again. Apart from all the amazing features it has Firefox is one of the best security tools you can use. Be a bit adventurous, and don’t be so quick to knock. Ed knows his stuff, he’s spending his time sharing it with us, embrace it!
August 11th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Can someone help me? I downloaded Foxfire, and tried to then add the delicious add-on. I keep getting a message that the “xpi” extension is not recognized, and will not let me do the download. What am I doing wrong?
THanks, Gail
August 11th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Oh my goodness, this is going to be a wild ride!! I evidently did not have foxfire completely installed when I tried to get the delicious add-on before. I did get it downloaded. I have SO MUCH TO LEARN - but I refuse to panic. Thanks Ed and Dan for all this great stuff!
August 13th, 2007 at 5:43 am
For those who must have IE compatability download the excellent IE tab extension for Firefox
IE Tab
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
Cheers
Ali Dragon
August 15th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
[...] Pre-Season Notes: Day 3 GETTING FOXY - PART 1 [...]
August 17th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
[...] [...]
August 20th, 2007 at 4:19 am
I’m just starting. The tape ran out before you said which add-ons you
were going to have us use. I don’t want any you aren’t using, and are
going to explaain how to work them, please. I’m zero techi and don’t
try to spin my wheels on every new program bleak that comes out.
They end up screwing up my machine.
Thanks.
Sandy
September 6th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Let me just say, this kinda sucks. If I had of know Firefox was going to be the official browser then I wouldn’t have dowloaded digg and stumpleupon and put that on my IE browser. Now I’m trying to figure out how to set up my Firefox browser like Ed in the video and there is now how to on that. Trying to remain positive but this is hard work already and I’m not even caught up the the challenge yet either.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:34 am
hi ed..
please help
i can’t register on the forum.
the system say “Sorry, registration has been disabled by the administrator.”
September 10th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
I already like the session manager plugin and I haven’t watched the next video yet….I’ve been shutting down my pc with my firefox windows open on purpose because then when I boot back up, I get the option to restore the session. Looks like session manager will give me this option, but even better….I can get a window back if I close it by accident, very cool. Thanks!
November 8th, 2007 at 8:19 am
hi
i can understand the plugins for fireox are very easy and a big advantage
But firefox is so slow on my computer, IE7 goes at least 3 times faster
Something i can do to improve that?
see you
thanks
November 10th, 2007 at 1:21 am
hi
please
i can’t register on the forum.
the system say “Sorry, registration has been disabled by the administrator.”
but i found that the the session manager very useful and great
i found
November 10th, 2007 at 3:20 am
I can’t keep silent! There are some bad decisions being made, so…
To All the People Objecting to Firefox:
Listen up and learn something!
In the right hands and with the right knowledge Internet Explorer can be made just as safe as any other browser. However, straight out of the box, it is more vulnerable to compromise than any of the other major browsers.
If you have a personal preference for any particular browser for regular use, there is still absolutely *NO* good reason not to have Firefox installed as one of your browsers, and to use it when appropriate.
There is nothing to stop you having multiple browsers installed — in fact many IT professionals and probably all Web developers do just that.
One of the attractive things about Firefox is the quantity of *safe* third-party extensions that are available for it. Some of these extensions will be used to great advantage during the Thirty Day Challenge.
If you’ve heard of someone experiencing problems because they “switched” to Firefox (and as I said you don’t have to “switch” - you just use it when appropriate) then that someone has system problems that are nothing to do with Firefox, and they’d be well advised to take remedial action soonest.
The issue of potential vulnerabilities in browsers is a very complex one and even experienced computer users often make *apparently* sensible decisions for all the wrong reasons. For example, you can’t escape Internet Explorer just by not using it. Even if you don’t use it, apply updates and patches whenever they are released anyway.
No, I am not part of the Thirty Day Challenge team.
- Bill Hely
- Author: “The Hacker’s Nightmare”
- http://HackersNightmare.com
- “How to keep hackers, worms & other germs out of your PC”
November 10th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Ed’s always got it going on doesn’t he? Hey Ed, sorry to miss out on the last 30-day challenge. Now that I have a few things cleared up and openings in my schedule, I’m going for it right now! I’ve been using Flock since the last thirty day challenge right along side Firefox. I just wanted to say its great your showing the secrets to using Firefox. Keep er’ comin’!
November 11th, 2007 at 12:11 am
Ed,
I noticed that Firefox is no longer showing the SEO for Firefox extension. Is there a counterpart that is worthwhile?
Thanks!
November 16th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Susan I noticed the same thing, but with in the first five post their is one that has all the links that you will need. I just did it and they all work
hope this helps
November 21st, 2007 at 3:40 am
i need your financial assistant
December 6th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Hey I have been using fire fox from couple of months its amazing ,open source browser !
December 24th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Hi,
I just downloaded Firefox and went to the next step of installing add ons, I started with delicious (periods not included) and the files have “xpi” after it and I am not able to read the downloads. I have a pc, has anyone run into this before? Have I missed a step somewhere?
Thanks!
January 5th, 2008 at 7:48 am
I like your instructions very much but I do not like the repeated references to Mac being superior. I have both Mac and PC and they both have their good and bad sides. I find the whole issue about pc vs Mac childish and I wish that we all stopped doing that because some people get really upset because they thnik they bought the wrong computer hurt by this ort get angsuish that they doid both the right make etc.. while it is all bollocks, if you pardon my French.
January 5th, 2008 at 7:54 am
oops, my comment was published by accident by pressing the wrong button and. Sorry about the last meaningless sentence, it shouldn’t be there
Anyway, I’m grateful for what you do for us, but everytime I get annoyed by this Mac vs PC story that we are hearing for the past decade.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I am just starting an reluctant to download anything to my laptop. Is firefox really necessary? Can this all be done in my exhisting explorer?
January 24th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Hi Laura. I just started this challenge myself, but I have been using firefox for well over a year. I believe that once you start using it, you will love it. It is a very safe download and many say much more secure than IE.
January 26th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Brad, thanks for the reply. I’ll give it a try.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Tried to add the SEO. It will not click in on the links. I tried the links provide as well. I see the page. I watched the video. What to do Dale?
February 24th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Getting Foxy - Part 1, doesn’t play or download…however I have no problem downloading Part 2.
Please help!
March 16th, 2008 at 3:28 am
There also is very cool firefox add-on called SeoQuake. It do almost the same with Seo For Firefox, only better. Try it:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3036
June 20th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
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August 4th, 2008 at 1:17 am
So far I m very disappointed by the information or lack of it.
August 8th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Very informative video Ed. I had no idea FireFox had so many add-ons. Thanks for the information and the video files to download. Looking forward to starting the challenge.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Hi Ed,
I have been using Firefox for a long time but
you have just given me the edge on firefox that
IE can not match.
I have installed all the Firefox Addons
Have an Inspiring day
Grant Wilson