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This document explains all of the &pref.plural; available in the &pref.pluralCaps; window of &brandFullName;.
Here you can specify the page (or tab group) that &brandShortName; will show when you launch it or press the Home button. Enter the address in the Location(s) field.
Click Use Current Page(s) to use the page you're currently visiting. You can also use multiple home pages. If more than one browser tab is currently opened, this button will set the whole tab group as a start page.
To specify the home page(s) using a bookmark, click Use Bookmark.... Selecting a whole bookmark folder will load all the bookmarks inside it in tabs.
If you don't want a home page to be loaded, click Use Blank Page.
&brandShortName; should check to see if it is the default
browser when starting
Check this option if you want &brandShortName; to check whether it is the
default browser when starting. This will ensure &brandShortName; is used
whenever an application tries to display a web page or when you open
an HTML file. You can also click the Check Now button to do a
check right now.
Your organization or Internet service provider may offer or require you to use a proxy. A proxy acts as an intermediary between your computer and the Internet. It intercepts all requests to the Internet to see if it can fulfil the request using its cache. Proxies are used to improve performance, filter requests, and hide your computer from the Internet to improve security. Proxies are often part of a corporate firewall.
The Privacy panel contains &pref.plural; related to your privacy. As you browse the web, information on where you have been, what pages you have visited, etc. are stored here. You can click the Clear button on each tab to clear that information.
&brandShortName; also allows you to clear certain or all items by pressing &accelKey;+&shiftKey;+Del or selecting
. You can also change the &pref.singular; to make &brandShortName; clear your data when you close &brandShortName;. &pref.pluralCaps; for this are in the Sanitise &brandShortName;... dialog.To display section-specific &pref.plural;, display a section by clicking on its tab.
Here you can specify how long you want &brandShortName; to remember what pages you have visited. The default is 9 days.
Save information I enter in forms and the Search bar
When you enter information in web forms, &brandShortName;
remembers what you type and automatically makes suggestions when you enter
information again. To stop this behavior, uncheck this &pref.singular;.
Remember Passwords
&brandShortName; can securely save passwords you enter in web forms to
make it easier to log on to web sites. Clear this checkbox to prevent
&brandShortName; from remembering your passwords.
Set/Change Master Password...
&brandShortName; can protect sensitive information such as saved passwords
and certificates. If you create a Master Password, &brandShortName; will ask
you to enter it once per session as soon as it is needed. You can set or
change the master password by clicking this button.
Remove Master Password...
Click this button to remove your current master password. You will have to
enter your current master password to do this.
View Saved Passwords
You can manage saved passwords and delete individual passwords by clicking
the View Saved Passwords button.
The Download Manager (accessible from &accelKey;+J&accelKey;+Y) stores shortcuts to your recent downloads. The Downloads &pref.plural; are available in the Downloads panel.
or by pressingRemove files from the Download Manager:
Choose whether the list of the recently downloaded files is purged upon
successful download, or when &brandShortName; exits, or
whether you want to purge the list manually. To purge the list,
click the Clear Download History Now button below or the
Clean Up button in the Download Manager.
A cookie is a file created by a web site that stores information on your computer, such as your preferences when visiting that site.
Allow sites to set cookies
By default cookies are enabled. Uncheck this &pref.singular; to disable
the use of cookies. Note that some sites may not work properly when
cookies are disabled.
To display the Cookie Manager click View Cookies.
Learn more about cookies, the individual &pref.plural;, and how you can gain control over what sites are allowed to store cookies on your computer by reading about Managing Cookies.
Pages you view are normally stored in a special cache folder for quicker viewing the next time you visit the same page. You can specify the amount of disk space the cache can use here.
Block Popup Windows
By default, &brandShortName; blocks annoying popup windows on web sites.
Unchecking this &pref.singular; will disable popup blocking.
Some web sites make legitimate use of popup windows. Therefore, you can allow these sites to open popups anyway. To do so, click Allowed Sites, enter the site name, and click Allow.
To remove a web site from the list, select it and then click Remove Site. To clear the list completely, click Remove All Sites.
Allow web sites to install software
By default, web sites are allowed to install software such as extensions
and themes. However, &brandShortName; will always ask you to confirm
software installations. Uncheck this &pref.singular; to completely disable
extension and theme installation.
Enabling this &pref.singular; is sufficient to install themes. Extensions are more powerful than themes, however, so you must explicitly allow a web site to install its extensions. To do so, click Allowed Sites, enter the site name, and click Allow.
Load Images
By default images are loaded on web pages. Uncheck this &pref.singular;
to disable images completely.
Depending on if you enable images, you can change which sites are blocked or which sites can load images by clicking Exceptions. Enter the site you want to allow/deny images from and click Allow to allow images, or click Block to block the images.
Enable Java
Java is a popular programming language for the web developed by Sun
Microsystems. A single Java program can run on many different kinds of
computers, thus avoiding the need for programmers to create a separate
version of each program for each kind of computer.
Uncheck this &pref.singular; to disable Java applets in &brandShortName;.
Note that in order for Java applets to work, you must install the Java
plugin.
Enable JavaScript
JavaScript is a scripting language commonly used to construct web pages.
JavaScript is often used to dynamically validate forms and select buttons.
Disabling JavaScript may cause some sites to not work properly.
Having JavaScript enabled exposes you to certain annoyances. Select the but disable common annoyances checkbox to disallow sites to move or resize existing windows, raise or lower windows, disable or replace context menus, hide the status bar, or change status bar text.
Default Font and Size
Web pages are usually displayed in the font and size specified here.
However, web pages may override these choices unless you specify otherwise
in the Advanced Fonts dialog.
Click the Advanced... button to access more fonts &pref.plural;.
Monospace fonts
.You can also specify the display resolution, which is normally 96 dpi.
Furthermore, you can set the minimum font size to be used on screen. This can be useful on some sites that use very small fonts that are barely readable.
Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections
above
By default &brandShortName; uses the fonts specified by the web page
author. Disabling this &pref.singular; will force all sites to use your
default fonts instead.
Character Encoding
The character encoding selected here will be used to display pages that
do not specify which encoding to use.
Text and Background
Here you can change the default text and background colour to be used on
web pages that haven't specified that information. Click on the colour
samples to select colours.
Use system colours
Check this &pref.singular; to use the colours defined in your OS settings
instead of the colours specified above.
Link Colours
Here you can change the default colours for Web links. Click on the colour
samples to select colours.
Underline links
By default, links are underlined on web pages. Uncheck this &pref.singular;
to disable this. Note that many sites specify their own styling rules
and this &pref.singular; has no effect on those sites.
Allow pages to choose their own colours, instead of my selections
above
By default, &brandShortName; uses the colours specified by the web page
author. Disabling this &pref.singular; will force all sites to use your
default colours instead.
Open links from other applications in:
When other applications on your computer display a web page, &brandShortName;
opens the page in the most recently displayed tab or window. You can make
&brandShortName; open the page elsewhere by changing this
&pref.singular;.
Force links that open new windows to open in:
&brandShortName; opens new windows from links when web pages request them.
If you prefer to use tabs as you browse, this behavior may be
counterproductive. You can force &brandShortName; to open links that would
normally be opened in new windows to be opened elsewhere. To do so, select
the checkbox for this &pref.singular; and choose the behavior you desire.
Hide the tab bar when only one web site is open
If you're only viewing one web page in a &brandShortName; window, the tab
bar is not shown. Uncheck this &pref.singular; to always show the tab bar.
Select new tabs opened from links
When you middle-click on Web links (or hold down &accelKey; while clicking
with the left mouse button), the links will be opened in a new tab. That tab
will not be shown directly; it will be loaded in a background tab. Check
this &pref.singular; to load the link in a foreground tab instead, which
will show that tab directly.
Warn when closing multiple tabs
When you close a window with multiple tabs, &brandShortName; will ask you to
confirm your choice. This prevents you from accidentally closing the whole
window when you wish to close only the current tab. Uncheck this box to skip
past the warning and have &brandShortName; automatically close the window.
This panel controls how &brandShortName; handles different file types such as applications, compressed files, and multimedia files.
Ask me where to save every file
&brandShortName; will ask you where you want the file to be saved whenever
you download a file.
Save all files to this folder:
This is the default &pref.singular; in &brandShortName;, and the default
folder is the Desktop. You can specify a different folder where all
downloads will be saved by clicking the Browse button.
Show Download Manager when a download begins
Select whether or not you want the Download Manager to automatically
appear when a download begins.
Close the download manager when all downloads are complete
Select whether or not you want the Download Manager to be closed when all
downloads are complete.
The Download Actions dialog, which can be opened by clicking the View & Edit Actions... button, contains file types that you have downloaded. You can choose what &brandShortName; should do when clicking on a specific file type by selecting the file type you want to modify and clicking the Change Action... button.
This will display the Change Action dialog, where you can choose to have the file type opened by the default application, opened by a user-selected application, saved to disk, or shown with an installed plugin. For example, if you view lots of media files on web pages, you might want to specify that &brandShortName; always open media files in your media player instead of asking where you want each media file to be saved.
To remove an automatic rule for a file type, select that file type in the Download Actions dialog and click the Remove Action button.
The advanced panel contains many &pref.plural; that are less likely to be used by most people but are still useful and sometimes critical &pref.plural; for some people.
Allow text to be selected with the keyboard
Also known as Caret Browsing, this specifies whether a moveable cursor
is displayed, allowing you to select text with the keyboard. Some
accessibility aids, such as screen readers and screen magnifiers, use
the system caret to determine which area of the screen to read or
magnify. You can toggle this mode by pressing F7.
Begin finding when you begin typing
When this &pref.singular; is enabled, &brandShortName; will find within
the current web page what you type as you type it. While you are finding
typed text in the page, the Find Toolbar will automatically display at
the bottom of the window to show information about what you've found.
Resize large images to fit in the browser window
This feature is similar to the one seen in Internet Explorer. It makes
images that are larger than can be fit on the screen shrink automatically
so you can view the whole picture. Click on the image to view it at full
size.
Use autoscrolling
Autoscrolling is a useful feature which allows you to scroll the page by
just holding down the middle mouse button (usually the scroll wheel) and
move the mouse up or down. Some people find this annoying, so
autoscrolling can be disabled with this &pref.singular;.
Use smooth scrolling
Smooth scrolling can be very useful if you read a lot of long pages.
Normally, when you press Page Down, the view jumps directly
down one page. With smooth scrolling, it slides down more smoothly, so
you can see how much it scrolls. This makes it easier to resume reading
from where you were before.
Some web pages are offered in more than one language. Click the Edit Languages... button to specify your preferred languages.
Languages Dialog:
To add a language, press Select a language to add..., choose
the language, and click the Add button. Remove a language by
selecting it in the list of active languages and clicking the
Remove button.
You can reorder languages to determine your preferred one in case a page is provided in two or more of your selected languages. Do this using the Move Up and Move Down buttons.
&brandShortName; can check whether new versions of your installed extensions, themes, or &brandShortName; itself are available.
&brandShortName;
By default, &brandShortName; will periodically check and notify you when a
new version is available. Uncheck this &pref.singular; to disable the
periodic check.
My Extensions and Themes
By default, &brandShortName; will periodically check and notify you when a
new version for one of your installed extensions or themes is available.
Uncheck this &pref.singular; to disable the periodic check.
Click the appropriate Check Now button to manually perform a check for updates to &brandShortName; or extensions and themes.
Use SSL 2.0
Specifies whether you want to send and receive secured information
through SSL2 (Secure Sockets Layer Level 2), the standard protocol for
secure transmissions. All secure web sites support this protocol.
Use SSL 3.0
Specifies whether you want to send and receive secured information
through SSL3 (Secure Sockets Layer Level 3), a protocol that is intended
to be more secure than SSL2. Note that some web sites may not support
this protocol.
Use TLS 1.0
Specifies whether you want to send and receive secured information
through TLS (Transport Layer Security), an open security standard
similar to SSL3 (Secure Sockets Layer). Note that some web sites may not
support this protocol.
Certificates help perform encryption and decryption of connections to secure sites.
When a web site requires a certificate:
When a web site requests a secure connection, &brandShortName; will by
default automatically use an appropriate certificate. If you wish to
manually choose a certificate (for example, if you wish to use a certain
type of encryption instead of what is automatically selected), select
the &pref.singular; Ask me every time and you'll be in complete
control of what certificates you use while browsing.
View Certificates
Click this button to view stored certificates, import new certificates,
and back up or delete old certificates in &brandShortName;.
Revocation Lists
&brandShortName; can use Certificate Revocation Lists (also known as
CRLs) to ensure that your certificates are not invalid. Click the
Revocation Lists button to manage the CRLs installed on your
computer.
Verification
OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) is a way to validate your
certificates every time they are viewed or used. &brandShortName; does
not use OCSP by default, but if you want to enable it, you can do so
here. You will most likely only need to change this if your Internet
environment requires it.
Security Devices
Security devices can encrypt and decrypt connections and store
certificates and passwords. If you need to use a security device other
than the one in &brandShortName;, click the Security Devices
button.
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