If you've been using Microsoft® Internet Explorer, you'll find that it's easy to begin using Mozilla Firefox.

Table Of Contents

• Terminology Differences
• About Your IE Favorites and Settings
• Default browser
• Keyboard Shortcuts

Terminology Differences

About Your IE Favorites and Settings

When you first install Firefox, it will let you import your existing Internet Explorer settings, including your Favorites, cookies, stored passwords, and a variety of other data. This saves you time customizing Firefox to fit your needs. Note that you can always import your Internet Explorer settings again in the future by clicking on the File menu and selecting Import....

Default browser

Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox are web browsers. When you click on an internet shortcut, Windows will open it in a web browser, but needs to know which browser to use. To make it use Firefox, use the instructions in our article on how to make Firefox the default browser.

Keyboard Shortcuts

You will notice that Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox share many of the same shortcut keys. For a full list of shortcut keys, see the List of Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts.