Browsing Basics video has many more tabs on screen than my Mac Firefox shows (i.e. no Firefox tab, no bookmark tab, no new tab tab,no all tabs tab), so most features of Firefox are not available to me .
I'm a year into using a computer, and my Mac was set up by another family member who is no longer around. Tonight I noticed the Firefox "getting started: tab and thought I might learn something. For starters, the screen on the Browsing Basics picture was so small as to be almost unreadable; I played parts of the video many times to catch what tab was being explained. It did not help that many of the tabs on the video were not on my Mac's Firefox screen.
Specifically, my screen has no Firefox tab (except at the top next to the Mac Apple logo), no bookmark tab to the right of the Home tab, no plus sign/new tab tab, no all tabs tab.
My screen also does not match the details on the sample screen that comes up when I first clicked on the Firefox "getting started" tab. It would seem I need a new Firefox top section of my screen, but I just downloaded Firefox updates.......Thanks for any help!
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I too just downloaded Firefox on my Mac and noticed that my screen did not match the video. The video's sample screen has been customized to show all the features you can add and use to make browsing easier, like adding all those tabs you and I don't have yet.
But first let me comment on how small the video is, with no way of expanding the video. Your mac can easily zoom in to make the video as big as you need it. Just hold down your ctrl key, place two fingers on your track pad and zoom in or out to the desired size. I use this feature so much, to read small text and watch video windows that are too small. Try it.
After you finish watching the "getting started video" just roll over the markers to make Firefox do what you need it to do. I however have the most of the tab features already from importing some of my settings from another browser so I can't tell you step by step on how to get the tabs you want. Just play around with it and I'm sure you'll begin to appreciate the speed and ease like I do.
One more thing I realized about that sample video you and I both watched with confusion. It's a Window's 7 screen! Not much use for us. It would be nice to have a Mac video but... oh well.
You do not have the Firefox menu button on Mac.
You only see that button on Windows and Linux when the Menu bar is hidden.
You should see Bookmarks Menu button on the Bookmarks Toolbar if that toolbar is visible and otherwise you should see that button on the Navigation Toolbar.
If that isn't working then open the Customize window and drag the Bookmarks Menu button (star) with the drop marker from the toolbar palette on a toolbar.
You can make the tab bar visible all the time:
- Firefox > Preferences > Tabs: [X] "Always show the tab bar"