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This will tell you how to rearrange, hide, add and remove toolbars in &brandShortName;. For those who are unfamiliar with the terminology, a toolbar is the (usually grey) box above the area that the web site is displayed.
There are two basic methods of customising the toolbars in &brandShortName;:
To rearrange the items (icons, buttons, text boxes, etc.) on your toolbar, right-clickpress &ctrlKey; and click on any part of the toolbar that is not a text box and select . This will bring up the toolbar customisation dialogue.
Drag and drop any items you want to and from the toolbars (excluding the menu items). You can also rearrange icons already on the toolbars by dragging and dropping them wherever you wish. When the toolbars and items are arranged the way you want them, click Done.
There are a few special items that are available to you when customising the toolbar. They are as follows:
You can hide the Navigation Toolbar and the Bookmarks Toolbar if you do not wish to keep them on your screen. You cannot hide the Menu Bar because you cannot move the menu items (File, Edit, Help, etc.) to a different toolbar, and they must stay on the screen at all times.
To show or hide a toolbar, select
and click the name of the toolbar you want to show or hide.To add a custom toolbar, select
. Click on Add New Toolbar (in the bottom of the dialogue). This will give you a dialogue to enter a name. If you enter a name and click OK, your new toolbar appears. Now you can drag and drop items to it. To remove a custom toolbar, drag and drop all the items from it, and click Done. You can also hide a custom toolbar as described in the previous paragraph.Add-ons are small pieces of software which change or add to the appearance or functionality of &brandShortName;. There are two kinds of add-ons: extensions and themes.
You can download and install many add-ons from &brandShortName; Add-ons. Internet searches will find many other add-ons as well.
When you click on a link to install an add-on, &brandShortName; displays a dialogue asking you for permission to install the add-on. You can choose to allow the download and installation or to cancel the process.
Add-ons are managed in the Add-ons manager. Select
to open it.By default, &brandShortName; will periodically check when a new version for one of your installed add-ons is available. If any are available, it will prompt you at the next start to install any updates. You can change this behaviour in the Update tab of the Advanced panel of &pref.pluralCaps;.
You can check for updates manually by selecting the Extensions or Themes panel and clicking the Find Updates button. If updates are available, the Add-ons manager displays an Updates panel, where you can choose the updates you want to install. Click the Install Updates button to update those add-ons. You need to restart &brandShortName; for changes to take effect.
If you want to get rid of an extension, you can either disable it temporarily, so it is easily available should you want to enable it again in the future, or uninstall it. Themes can only be uninstalled since all themes except the current one are disabled automatically.
To disable or enable an extension, select the extension of your choice and click its Disable or Enable button. To remove an add-on from &brandShortName;, select the add-on you wish to remove and click its Uninstall button. You need to restart &brandShortName; for changes to take effect.
Further functionality such as Visit Home Page and About is available by selecting the add-on of your choice, pressing &ctrlKey; and clicking onright-clicking the add-on and selecting the respective item from the context menu.
Extensions often provide a dialogue to configure their functionality. To open the &pref.plural; dialogue of an extension, select the Extensions panel, select the extension of your choice, and click its &pref.pluralCaps; button, or simply double-click the extension.
To switch between your installed themes, select the Themes panel, select the theme of your choice, and click its Use Theme button. You need to restart &brandShortName; for changes to take effect.
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