There are several different browsers to choose from for your Linux system. Here we will focus on Firefox by Mozilla.
Firefox is usually available by clicking on the browser icon on your desktop. You can also start it from the command line. For this example we will start Firefox for the first time with user jklewis
.
The following screenshot shows how Firefox looked like the first time I opened it under user jklewis
:
The following is the method to run Firefox from a terminal:
Open a terminal session for a guest user. For this example, I ran
su - jklewis
and entered my passwordRun
firefox &
(the ampersand tells it to run the command in the background so you can still access that terminal. Error messages will also be displayed here).Firefox should come up with the default settings. Let's change some of them. Go to Edit | Preferences.
Click on Edit->Preferences
The Firefox Preferences screen should come up, on the General section. See...