Firefox Lesson 2: Open a Page and Find Its Text

Lesson 2 of 10. You may study lessons in any order. Complete and mark all ten before the final quiz.

Your goal

Open the Manuals page by address, find Firefox within the page, and explain how page Find differs from a web search.

Before starting

Use your own authorized practice account or a harmless practice document. Identify the active application and the focused control before each command. Keep these instructions in a separate window. Never include passwords or private messages in your learning notes.

Follow the product and device version named in each procedure. A plus sign means hold the modifier while pressing the final key; “then” means release before continuing. These procedures are documentation-based and have not been tested here with the actual assistive software or signed-in reading accounts.

Open a page and find text

What you will learn: Separate the address bar from page content.

Exactly how to do it

In Firefox on Windows, press Ctrl+L. Type accessiblelearningcenter.org and press Enter.
Use Tab to explore links. Activate Manuals with Enter.
Press Ctrl+F, type Thunderbird, then press Escape to close Find.

What should happen: The manual title is located on the page.

If that does not happen: If you typed into the wrong control, return to the address bar and identify the page before retrying.

Practice: Find a topic you know. Explain the difference between searching this page and searching the entire web.

Source: Mozilla keyboard shortcuts.

Your practice assignment

Open the Manuals page by address, find Firefox within the page, and explain how page Find differs from a web search.

Check your work before marking complete

Identify the starting application, account, device, or keyboard layout used for this task.
Demonstrate each part of the goal above and describe the result after each action.
Return to the saved item, passage, or starting setting when the task calls for it.
Explain one problem you encountered or could encounter and the recovery step you would use.
Record whether you worked independently, needed a prompt, or used the written alternative.

If the application, membership, or device is unavailable: complete a written walkthrough of this exact assignment. Include the starting context, ordered actions, expected results, and one recovery step. Label it “written alternative — not tested on the device.” The completion record is self-reported, not an instructor-verified skills assessment.