This section describes how to use the main Navigator preferences
panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Click the Navigator category.
The Navigator preferences panel allows you to customize three
aspects of the browser.
Display on: Lets you specify what &brandShortName; displays when
Navigator starts up, when you open a new window, and when you open
a new tab. For each of these choices, choose one of the
following:
Blank page: No web page is displayed.
Home page: Your home page (specified below) is
displayed.
Last page visited: The page you were viewing when you
last exited &brandShortName; is displayed.
Default Browser: Allows you to set the browser as the
default browser or shows you that it is.
Set Default Browser: Unless it is greyed out, click this
to set the browser as your default browser.
Note: This setting is present only on Windows.
Home Page: In the field, type the web page you want as
your home page or do one of the following:
Use Current Page: Click this to use the web page
currently displayed in Navigator as your home page.
Use Current Group: If you have two or more Navigator
tabs open, click this to set them as your Home Page Group (a group
of tabs that are opened as your home page). After clicking this
button, the message "Home Page Group is Set" appears in the
location field.
Caution: If you edit the field after clicking Use Current
Group, your Home Page Group will be lost.
Choose File: Click this to locate a file on disk that
you want to load as your home page.
Restore Default: Click this to set
&vendorURL; as your home page.
Select the buttons you want to see in the toolbars:
Select any of the available checkboxes to see them on your
toolbars.
The Go, Search, and Print buttons appear in the Navigation Toolbar
near the upper-right corner of the Navigator window. All other
buttons appear in the Personal Toolbar. For information about
adding your own bookmarks to this toolbar, see
Personal
Toolbar.
Navigator Preferences - History
This section describes how to use the History preferences panel.
If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Navigator category, click History. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Navigator to expand the
list.)
The History preferences panel allows you to configure three
history settings on Navigator.
Browsing History:
Remember visited pages for the last __ days: Type the
number of days you want &brandShortName; to keep track of the web pages you
have previously visited. For example, if you set this number to 10
days, pages 10 days old or less will be kept in the history
list.
Clear History: Click this to delete the list of sites
visited.
Location Bar History:
Clear Location Bar: Click this to clear the list of
sites in the Location bar menu.
For more information about history in &brandShortName;, see
Retracing Your
Steps.
Navigator Preferences - Languages
This section describes how to use the Languages preferences
panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Navigator category, click Languages. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Navigator to expand the
list.)
The Languages preferences panel allows you to choose the
languages and character coding for displaying web pages:
Languages for Web Pages:
Move Up / Move Down: Click one of these buttons to move
a selected language up or down, which sets the order of preference
for the listed languages.
Add: Click this to add additional languages for
displaying web pages.
Remove: Click this to remove a selected
language.
Character Coding:
Default Character Coding: Use the drop-down list to
select the character coding you want for displaying web
pages.
Navigator Preferences - Helper Applications
This section describes how to use the Helper Applications
preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these
steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Navigator category, click Helper Applications. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Navigator to expand the
list.)
The Helper Applications preferences panel allows you set up how
different file types are opened by other applications in
&brandShortName;:
Specify how to handle files of each file type:
File types: Displays the file types that &brandShortName; uses.
Select one of them to show the following information:
Description:Displays the description of the selected
file type.
Extension(s):Displays the file extension of the selected
file type.
When encountered: Displays the program that will be used
to open each file of the selected file type.
New Type: Click this to add a new file type. Type or
choose the description, file extension, MIME type, and
application.
Edit: Click this to change the file-handling information
of a selected file type.
Remove: Click this to remove a selected file
type.
Plug-in Finder Service: Select this to always use the
Plugin Finder Service (PFS) whenever &brandShortName; needs a new plug-in.
If left unselected, the PFS is only used when a plug-in location is
not provided by the web page that requires the plug-in.
This section describes how to use the Smart Browsing preferences
panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Navigator category, click Smart Browsing. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Navigator to expand the
list.)
The Smart Browsing preferences panel allows you to better browse
web pages using Internet Keywords, and Location bar
autocomplete.
Internet Keywords:
Enable Internet Keywords: Select this to enable fast
access to services such as stock quotes, search, and other
information from the Location bar.
More Information: Click this to learn more about using
Internet Keywords.
Location Bar Autocomplete:
Automatically complete text typed into Location bar:
Select this to automatically complete text you previously entered
into the Location bar.
Advanced: Click this and select one or more of the
following options:
Autocomplete best match as you type: As you type in the
Location Bar, &brandShortName; will automatically complete your web address
using the visited web site it most closely matches.
Show list of matching results: As you type in the
Location Bar, &brandShortName; will show a drop-down list of matching
visited web addresses.
Show internet search engine: Shows a drop-down list item
allowing you to search the default search engine for words you
enter.
Match only website you've typed previously: Shows only
web sites that you've typed in the Location Bar and not sites that
were opened in other ways, such as clicking a link on a web
page.
Domain Guessing:
Automatically add www. and .com to the location if a web
page isn't found: Select this to help locate web
pages.
Navigator Preferences - Internet Search
This section describes how to use the Internet Search
preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these
steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Navigator category, click Internet Search. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Navigator to expand the
list.)
The Internet Search preferences panel allows you to configure
how you search using &brandShortName;:
Default Search Engine:
Search using: Use the drop-down list to select the
search engine you want to use for web searching.
Search Results:
Open the Search tab in the Sidebar when search results are
available: Select this to have &brandShortName; open the Sidebar and
show your search results.
Sidebar Search Tab Preference:
Basic: Choose this to use one search engine when
searching in &brandShortName;.
Advanced: Choose this to select one or more search
engines from a list when searching in &brandShortName;.
Navigator Preferences - Tabbed Browsing
This section describes how to use the Tabbed Browsing
preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these
steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Navigator category, click Tabbed Browsing. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Navigator to expand the
list.)
The Tabbed Browsing preferences panel allows you to set up
Tabbed Browsing:
Note: On Mac OS, where instructed to press Control
(Ctrl), press Command instead, and press Return instead of
Enter.
Tab Display:
Hide the tab bar when only one tab is open: Select this
to display the Tabbed Browsing bar only when more then one
Navigator tab is open.
Load links in the background: Select this to prevent
&brandShortName; from switching to a new tab when using "Open in a New Tab"
to open a link.
Open tabs instead of windows for:
Middle-click, Control+click or Control+Enter on links in a
Web page: Select this to open web page links in a new tab when
clicking a link with the middle mouse button or while pressing
Ctrl.
Control+Enter in the Location bar: Select this to open a
web-page link in a new tab when you type a URL in the Location Bar
and press Ctrl+Enter.
Navigator Preferences - Downloads
This section describes how to use the Downloads preferences
panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Navigator category, click Downloads. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Navigator to expand the
list.)
The Downloads preferences panel allows you to set up how
&brandShortName; handles files you download from web pages:
When starting a download:
Open the download manager: Select this to display the
Download Manager, which displays the status for current and
previous downloads. The status of all downloads is kept in a single
window.
Open a progress dialog: Select this to display a
progress dialog box, which display the status for your current
download. The status of each download is kept in a separate
window.
Don't open anything: Select this if you want to download
files invisibly. No status is given for all your
downloads.