What+Can+Your+Browser+Do+for+You?+-+Carol+Roth

=Mozilla Firefox=
 * Very compatible with just about every website and plug in availablemedia type="custom" key="20199986" align="right"
 * The “Awesome Bar” - it’s not just for URL’s any more - learns as you go
 * Search bar flexibility
 * Bookmarking:
 * May turn on the bookmark toolbar if it is not there (View, Toolbars, Bookmarks Toolbar)
 * Click the star to bookmark and hit it again to edit the entry
 * Importance of Bookmark Tags
 * Organizing bookmarks by adding folders or separations
 * Tabs:
 * App Tabs to pin locations you always want to have handy, turn blue when they are updated, pop back up after restarting
 * Tab Groups - to collect tabs that you use together often, search grouped tabs
 * Customize the new tab page
 * Add-ons for fun (look under Tools)

=Google Chrome=
 * Fast and simple
 * Seamless integration with Google accountsmedia type="custom" key="20192618" align="right"
 * Web based - log in to Chrome on any computer for access to all of your bookmarks, history and settings
 * Do all searches directly from the search bar (Omnibox)
 * Quick bookmarking with star in the search bar
 * Set language preferences to translate entire web pages at a time (note: if English is on your list at all then it will not ask to translate a website in English).
 * Use the Task Manager "wrench" to force specific tabs or applications to quit instead of the entire program
 * Chrome Webstore full of great apps, extensions and themes for you to select
 * To try:
 * Check the options in settings - click the wrench
 * Try to switch your preferred language to see how it could be used for ESL/ELL students
 * Web store: (remember these follow wherever you log on in Chrome)
 * Look at extensions used by people from your Google+ Circles, if you have them
 * Check the Extensions, Utilities, Productivity, or Education category for helpful extensions for your students, for your classroom, or for you professionally
 * i.e. Brain Pop, Planetarium, Ancient History Encyclopedia, GeoGebra, SAT 1000 words to know etc. and updated every day
 * Themes for fun :-)
 * Useful Extensions/Add-ons:
 * Ancient History Encyclopedia
 * Pinterest
 * Facebook
 * Language Immersion
 * Evernote
 * Turn Off the Lights
 * Clearly
 * Quick Note
 * Daum Equation Editor
 * Tweetdeck
 * Goo.gl - QR Code Generator