This section describes how to use the main Advanced preferences
panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Click the Advanced category.
The main Advanced preferences panel allows you to customize
Java, Quick Launch, and FTP passwords:
Enable Java: Select this to allow &brandShortName; to interpret
pages containing Java. Java is used on some Web page to incorporate
interactive and multimedia content.
Send this email address as anonymous FTP password: Type
an email address that you want to use as your password when logging
into an FTP site anonymously.
Keep &brandShortName; in memory to improve startup performance:
Select this if you want to shorten the time it takes to start
&brandShortName;. See "Using Quick
Launch" for more information about using Quick Launch.
Note: Quick Launch appears only on Windows-based
platforms.
Advanced Preferences - Scripts & Plugins
This section describes how to use the Scripts & Plugins
preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these
steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click Scripts & Plugins. (If
no subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the
list.)
The Scripts & Plugins preferences panel allows you to
control how JavaScript and plugins are used in &brandShortName;:
Enable JavaScript for: Select these checkboxes to turn
JavaScript on:
Navigator: Toggles JavaScript for web pages opened in
Navigator.
Mail & Newsgroups: Toggles JavaScript for web pages
opened in Mail & Newsgroups.
Allow webpages to: Select these checkboxes to control
how JavaScript can be used:
Move or resize existing windows: Allows open windows to
be resized or moved.
Raise or lower windows: Allows windows to be placed
under or on top of other windows.
Hide the status bar: Allows the status bar to be
hidden.
Change status bar text: Allows status bar text to be
changed, such as in scrolling text in the status bar.
Change images: Allows images to be changed or animated,
such as in image rollovers (images that change when the mouse
cursor is placed over them).
Create or change cookies: Allows cookies to be changed
or created using JavaScript.
Read cookies: Allows cookies to be read using
JavaScript.
Enable Plugins for: Check this checkbox to control how
plugins are used:
Mail & Newsgroups: Allows plugins to be used in Mail
& Newsgroups.
This section describes how to use the Keyboard Navigation
preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these
steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click Keyboard Navigation. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the
list.)
The Keyboard Navigation preferences panel allows you to control
how you use the keyboard to navigate and search for text in web
pages:
Links: If checked, pressing Tab or Shift+Tab
moves between links.
Buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, and
lists: If checked, pressing Tab or Shift+Tab moves between
buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, and lists.
Find automatically when typing within a web
page: If checked, typing text in a web page automatically
activates Find As You Type and locates the text you typed (if it
exists in the page). Choose whether you want typing to find any
text in the page or links only. If unchecked, you must choose Find
Links As You Type or Find Text As You Type from the Edit menu
before typing the text you want to find.
Play a sound when typed text isn't found: If
checked, Find As You Type plays a sound when the typed text isn't
found in the web page.
Clear the current search after a few seconds of
inactivity: If checked, cancels the search after a few
seconds of keyboard inactivity.
Advanced Preferences - Cache
This section describes how to use the Cache preferences panel.
If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click Cache. (If no subcategories
are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the list.)
The Cache preferences panel allows you to adjust the &brandShortName;
cache:
Cache: Type in the amount of disk cache you want to
allocate for &brandShortName;. Disk cache is saved to your hard disk
(drive) and can be used again even if you have turned your computer
off.
Clear Cache: Click this to clear the disk cache.
Cache Folder: Shows the current location of the disk
cache folder.
Choose Folder: Click this to choose a folder location
for the disk cache.
Compare the page in the cache to the page on the
network:
Every time I view the page: Select this if you want
&brandShortName; to compare a web page to the cache every time you view
it.
When the page is out of date: Select this if you want
&brandShortName; to compare a web page to the cache when the page is
determined by the server to have expired.
Once per session: Select this if you want &brandShortName; to
compare a web page to the cache once for each time you start
&brandShortName;.
Never: Select this if you do not want &brandShortName; to
compare cached information to the network.
Prefetch web pages when idle, so that links in web pages
designed for prefetching can load faster: Select this to
decrease the time it takes to load web pages when you click a link
in a web page that uses prefetching.
Advanced Preferences - Proxies
This section describes how to use the Proxies preferences panel.
If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click Proxies. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the
list.)
The Proxies preferences panel allows you to set up &brandShortName; to
use a proxy:
Before you start: Ask your network administrator if you
have a proxy configuration file or for the names and port numbers
of the proxy.
Direct connection to the Internet: Choose this if you
don't want to use a proxy.
Manual proxy configuration: Choose this if you don't
have a proxy location (URL).
HTTP Proxy, SSL Proxy, FTP Proxy, Gopher
Proxy: Type the name or numeric IP address of the proxy server.
Type the port in the Port field.
SOCKS Host: Type the name or numeric IP address of the
proxy server. Type the port in the Port field.
SOCKS v4, SOCKS v5: When entering a SOCK Host, select
"SOCKS v4" or "SOCKS v5," depending on what version of SOCKS is
used for the proxy.
No Proxy for: Type the domains that you do not want to
use a proxy for. Separate each domain with a comma. (Example:
.yourcompany.com, .yourcompany.co.nz)
Automatic proxy configuration URL: Choose this if you
have a proxy configuration file or URL, then type the configuration
URL.
Advanced Preferences - HTTP Networking
This section describes how to use the HTTP Networking
preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these
steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click HTTP Networking. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the
list.)
The HTTP Networking preferences panel is used to configure
HTTP-based networking:
Direct Connection Options, Proxy Connection Options:
Choose the HTTP version and options for direct and proxy
connections.
Use HTTP 1.0: Choose this to use the original version of
HTTP, standardized in 1996.
Use HTTP 1.1: Choose this to use the new version of
HTTP, which offers performance enhancements, including more
efficient use of HTTP connections, better support for client-side
caching, multiple HTTP requests (pipelining), and more refined
control over cache expiration and replacement policies.
Enable Keep-Alive: Select this to keep a connection open
to make additional HTTP requests, increasing speed.
Enable Pipelining: Select this to enable pipelining,
which allows for more than one HTTP request to be sent to the
server at once, reducing delays loading web pages. Note: Pipelining is only available with HTTP
1.1.
Advanced Preferences - Software Installation
This section describes how to use the Software Installation
preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these
steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click Software Installation. (If
no subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the
list.)
The Software Installation preferences panel is used to enable
software installation and update notification:
Enable software installation: Select this if you want
&brandShortName; to prompt you when new software needs to be installed and
used with &brandShortName;.
Check for updates: Select this to be notified when new
versions of &brandShortName; are available. Your personal information is
not shared with &vendorShortName; when verifying your version of &brandShortName;.
weekly: Choose this if you want &brandShortName; to check once a
week to see if a new version of &brandShortName; is available.
monthly: Choose this if you want &brandShortName; to check once
a month to see if a new version of &brandShortName; is
available.
Advanced Preferences - Mouse Wheel
This section describes how to use the Mouse Wheel preferences
panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click Mouse Wheel. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the
list.)
The Mouse Wheel preferences panel allows you to control how the
mouse wheel on your mouse (in between your mouse buttons) is used
in &brandShortName;:
Modifier Key: Use the the drop-down list to choose a key
that you want to use along with the mouse wheel to perform one of
the following functions:
Scroll the document by: Choose this to scroll the
document by the number of lines typed in the field.
Use system default: Choose this to override the number
of lines entered and instead use the system default
setting.
Scroll a page up or a page down: Choose this to scroll
up or down one page at a time. This setting allows faster, but less
accurate scrolling through a page with your mouse wheel.
Move back and forward in the browsing history: Choose
this to use the mouse wheel to navigate back or forward to previous
pages you've visited.
Make the text larger or smaller: Choose this to use the
mouse wheel to increase or decrease the size of text on a web page.
This setting can help you better read a page, or make text fit on
the screen.
Note: Each modifier key can be assigned to a different
function.
Advanced Preferences - System
This section describes how to use the System preferences panel.
If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click System. (If no subcategories
are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the list.)
Note: The System preferences panel appears only on
Windows-based platforms.
The System preferences panel allows you to specify what files
and protocols are opened using the browser:
Windows should use the browser to open these file types:
Select the file types that you want to open by default using
the browser.
Windows should use the browser to handle these protocols:
Select the protocols that you want to open by default using
the browser.
Alert me if other applications change these settings:
Select this if you want the browser to alert you when other
applications have changed your default browser file and protocol
settings.
Tip: To make the browser the default browser easily, see
Navigator
Preferences - Navigator. Also select "Alert me if other
application change these settings" to know when other programs
become the default programs instead of the browser.