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One thing puzzles me: What are "extensions," and how are they used?

Think of extentions in the same way as you would after market improvements to your car like say, newer or "snappier" wheels, a better radio, or an improvment to your engine.

Firefox extentions are improvments to your web brower that weren't apart of your orginal download. For example one of my favorites is the bbcode extention. What does it do you might ask? Well with my "html" option checked in the bbcode extention I can enter tags into this very forum to underline, italic, color, text when I post on Free Republic. (And many other html "tags" and functions with the click of a button.)

For example when I want to underline something I just highlight the text that I want to be underlined in my Free Republic post, right click, select ----> htmlcode -----> underline . The firefox extention will add the htmltags around my selected text show it will show up in my post like so. Text text text text text.

The catch is you have to download and install the extensions and configure them the way you want them to operate. If you would like to find out what other extensions there are click on tools-----> extensions. This area is where you can list all the extensions you have as well as configure them via the "options" button. To download extensions click on ------> get more extenstions. You should be able to browse that area and download the extensions you like.