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<h1 id="navigator_preferences">Navigator Preferences</h1>
<p>This section describes how to use the Navigator preference panel. If
you&apos;re not already viewing the panel, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Choose Navigator.</li>
</ol>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#navigator">Navigator</a></li>
<li><a href="#history">History</a></li>
<li><a href="#languages">Languages</a></li>
<li><a href="#helper_applications">Helper Applications</a></li>
<li><a href="#smart_browsing">Smart Browsing</a></li>
<li><a href="#internet_search">Internet Search</a></li>
<li><a href="#tabbed_browsing">Tabbed Browsing</a></li>
<li><a href="#downloads">Downloads</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2 id="navigator">Navigator Preferences - Navigator</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the main Navigator preferences panel. If
you&apos;re not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Click the Navigator category.</li>
</ol>
<p>The Navigator preferences panel allows you to customize certain aspects of
the browser.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Display on</strong>: Use the drop-down list in combination with
the checkboxes to control what will be displayed at startup or when you
open a new window or tab:
<ol>
<li>
<ul>
<li>Select <strong>Navigator Startup</strong> to set what Navigator
will display at startup.</li>
<li>Select <strong>New Window</strong> to set what will be displayed
when opening a new Navigator window.</li>
<li>Select <strong>New Tab</strong> to set what will be displayed
when opening a new tab.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Select one of the following checkboxes:
<ul>
<li><strong>Blank page</strong>: Causes Navigator to display a blank
page.</li>
<li><strong>Home page</strong>: Causes Navigator to load your home
page (specified below).</li>
<li><strong>Last page visited</strong>: Causes Navigator to load the
page you were viewing right before you last exited
&brandShortName;.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li class="win"><strong>Default Browser</strong>: Allows you to set
&brandShortName; as the default browser or shows you that it is.
<ul>
<li><strong>Set Default Browser</strong>: Unless it is greyed out, click
this to set &brandShortName; as your default browser.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Home Page</strong>: In the field, type the web page you want as
your home page or do one of the following:
<ul>
<li><strong>Use Current Page</strong>: Click this to use the web page
currently displayed in Navigator as your home page.</li>
<li><strong>Use Current Group</strong>: 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 <q>Home Page Group is Set</q> appears in the location
field.
<p><strong>Caution</strong>: If you edit the field after clicking Use
Current Group, your Home Page Group will be lost.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>Restore Default</strong>: Click this to revert to the
the default home page.</li>
<li><strong>Choose File</strong>: Click this to locate a file on disk
that you want to load as your home page.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Select the buttons you want to see in the toolbars</strong>:
Select any of the available checkboxes to see them on your
toolbars.
<p>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
<a href="customize_help.xhtml#personal_toolbar">Personal
Toolbar</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#navigator_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="history">Navigator Preferences - History</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the History preferences panel. If
you&apos;re not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span>menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Navigator category, click History. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Navigator to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The History preferences panel allows you to configure three history settings
on Navigator.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Browsing History</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Remember visited pages for the last [__] days</strong>: 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.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Clear History</strong>: Click this to delete the list of sites
visited.</li>
<li><strong>Location Bar History</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Clear Location Bar</strong>: Click this to clear the list of
sites in the Location bar menu.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information about history in &brandShortName;, see
<a href="nav_help.xhtml#retracing_your_steps">Retracing Your Steps</a>.</p>
<p>[<a href="#navigator_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="languages">Navigator Preferences - Languages</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Languages preferences panel. If
you&apos;re not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Navigator category, click Languages. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Navigator to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Languages preferences panel allows you to choose the languages and
character encoding for displaying web pages and choose if and how your typing
is spell checked:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Languages for Web Pages</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Move Up / Move Down</strong>: Click one of these buttons to
move a selected language up or down, which sets the order of preference
for the listed languages.</li>
<li><strong>Add</strong>: Click this to add additional languages for
displaying web pages.</li>
<li><strong>Remove</strong>: Click this to remove a selected
language.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Character Encoding</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Default Character Encoding</strong>: Use the drop-down list
to select the character encoding you want for displaying web
pages.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Spelling</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>When typing check my spelling</strong>: Use the drop-down
list to select if and how your typing is spell checked.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#navigator_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="helper_applications">Navigator Preferences - Helper Applications</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Helper Applications preferences panel.
If you&apos;re not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Navigator category, click Helper Applications. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Navigator to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Helper Applications preferences panel allows you to control how
different file types are opened by other applications in
&brandShortName;:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Specify how to handle files of each type</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>File types</strong>: Displays the file types that
&brandShortName; uses. Select one of them to show the following
information:
<ul>
<li><strong>Description</strong>: Displays a description of the
selected file type.</li>
<li><strong>Extension(s)</strong>: Displays the file extension(s) of
the selected file type.</li>
<li><strong>When encountered</strong>: Displays what kind of action
that will be taken when &brandShortName; encounters the selected
file type.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>New Type</strong>: Click this to add a new file type. You see
a dialog box:
<ul>
<li><strong>Mime Type</strong>: Type the Mime type of the file type
you want to add.</li>
<li><strong>Description</strong>: Type a Descrition of the file
type you want to add.</li>
<li><strong>Extension</strong>: Type the file extension of the file
type you want to add.</li>
<li><strong>When a file of this type is encountered</strong>:
Select one option from the checkboxes:
<ul>
<li><strong>Open it using the default application</strong>:
Causes the the file to be opened by the default program in
your systems settings.</li>
<li><strong>Open it with</strong>: Causes the file to be
opened by a program you specify. Use the Choose File button
to locate the program on your disk</li>
<li><strong>Save it to disk</strong>: The file will be saved
to disk.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Always ask me when handling files of this
type</strong>: Select this to make the Download Dialog box always
appear when files of this type are encountered.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Edit</strong>: Click this to change the file-handling
information of a selected file type.</li>
<li><strong>Remove</strong>: Click this to remove a selected file
type.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Plug-in Finder Service</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Always use the Netscape Plug-in Finder Service (PFS) to get
plug-ins</strong>: 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.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>To learn more about how to handle different file types with
&brandShortName;, see
<a href="nav_help.xhtml#plugins_and_downloads">Plug-ins and Downloads</a>.
</p>
<p>[<a href="#navigator_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="smart_browsing">Navigator Preferences - Smart Browsing</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Smart Browsing preferences panel. If
you&apos;re not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Navigator category, click Smart Browsing. (If no subcategories
are visible, double-click Navigator to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Smart Browsing preferences panel allows you to better browse web pages
using Internet Keywords, Location Bar Autocomplete and Domain Guessing.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Internet Keywords</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Enable Internet Keywords</strong>: Select this to enable fast
access to services such as stock quotes, search, and other information
from the Location bar.</li>
<li><strong>More Information</strong>: Click this to learn more about
using Internet Keywords.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li id="location_bar_autocomplete"><strong>Location Bar
Autocomplete</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Automatically complete text typed into Location bar</strong>:
Select this to automatically complete text you previously entered into
the Location bar.</li>
<li><strong>Advanced</strong>: Click this and select one or more of the
following options:
<ul>
<li><strong>Autocomplete best match as you type</strong>: As you
type in the Location Bar, &brandShortName; will automatically
complete your web address using the visited website it most closely
matches.</li>
<li><strong>Show list of matching results</strong>: As you type in
the Location Bar, &brandShortName; will show a drop-down list of
matching visited web addresses.</li>
<li><strong>Show internet search engine</strong>: Shows a drop-down
list item allowing you to search the default search engine for
words you enter.</li>
<li><strong>Match only website you&apos;ve typed previously</strong>:
Shows only websites that you&apos;ve typed in the Location Bar and
not sites that were opened in other ways, such as clicking a link
on a web page.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Domain Guessing</strong>: Select this if you want
&brandShortName; to automatically add <tt>www.</tt> and <tt>.com</tt> to a
web page location that can&apos;t be found. For more detailed information
about the Domain Guessing feature, see the online document
<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/domain-guessing.html">Domain
Guessing</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#navigator_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="internet_search">Navigator Preferences - Internet Search</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Internet Search preferences panel. If
you&apos;re not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Navigator category, click Internet Search. (If no subcategories
are visible, double-click Navigator to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Internet Search preferences panel allows you to configure how you search
using &brandShortName;:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Default Search Engine</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Search using</strong>: Use the drop-down list to select the
search engine you want use for web searching.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Search Results</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Open the Search tab in the Sidebar when search results are
available</strong>: Select this to have &brandShortName; open the
Sidebar and show your search results.</li>
<li><strong>Open tab instead of window for a context menu web
search</strong>: Select this to have &brandShortName; show your search
results in a new tab rather than a new window when you search on
selected words in a web page.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Sidebar Search Tab Preference</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Basic</strong>: Choose this to use one search engine when
searching in &brandShortName;.</li>
<li><strong>Advanced</strong>: <strong></strong>Choose this to select one
or more search engines from a list when searching in
&brandShortName;.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#navigator_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="tabbed_browsing">Navigator Preferences - Tabbed Browsing</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Tabbed Browsing preferences panel. If
you&apos;re not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Navigator category, click Tabbed Browsing. (If no subcategories
are visible, double-click Navigator to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Tabbed Browsing preferences panel allows you to set up Tabbed
Browsing:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Tab Display</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Hide the tab bar when only one tab is open</strong>: Select
this to display the Tabbed Browsing bar only when more then one
Navigator tab is open.</li>
<li><strong>Switch to new tabs opened from links</strong>: Select this to
make &brandShortName; switch to the new tab when using <q>Open in a
New Tab</q> to open a link.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>When opening a bookmark group</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Add tabs</strong>: Select this if you want a bookmark group
to be opened in new tabs.</li>
<li><strong>Replace existing tabs</strong>: Select this if you want a
bookmark group to replace your existing tabs.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Open tabs instead of windows for</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong><span class="mac"><kbd>Cmd</kbd>+click or
<kbd>Cmd</kbd>+<kbd>Return</kbd></span>
<span class="noMac">Middle-click, <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+click or
<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Enter</kbd> on links in a Web
page</span></strong>: Select this to open Web page links in a new tab
when clicking a link <span class="mac">and holding down the
<kbd>Command</kbd> key or holding down the <kbd>Command</kbd> key and
pressing <kbd>Return</kbd> on links</span> <span class="noMac">with the
middle mouse button, <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-clicking on links, and pressing
<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Enter</kbd> on links</span>.
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: Use Find Links as You Type to navigate to the
link you want to open with the keyboard commands above.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>
<kbd class="mac">Cmd</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd
class="mac">Return</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Enter</kbd> in the Location
bar</strong>: Select this to open a Web page in a new tab when you type
the URL of the page in the Location Bar and press
<kbd class="mac">Cmd</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd
class="mac">Return</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Enter</kbd>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Link open behavior</strong>: If a webpage is designed so that
certain links open in a new window by default (either through the target
attribute in HTML or through embedded JavaScript), you may want to
override this:
<ul>
<li><strong>The current tab/window</strong>: Open the linked page in the
current tab of the active window.</li>
<li><strong>A new tab in the current window</strong>: Open the linked
page in a new tab instead of a new window.</li>
<li><strong>A new window</strong>: Open the linked page in a new window.
(This is the default and does not override the webpage design).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Links from other applications</strong>: If &brandShortName; is
called from another application with a webpage address as an argument (like
a click on a link in an external email program), you can control where the
page will be loaded:
<ul>
<li><strong>The current tab/window</strong>: Open the linked page in the
current tab of the active window.</li>
<li><strong>A new tab in the current window</strong>: Open the linked
page in a new tab instead of a new window.</li>
<li><strong>A new window</strong>: Open the linked page in a new window.
(This is the default).</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="win">
<p>To ensure that &brandShortName; opens a new window, select the Navigator
option in <a href= "cs_nav_prefs_appearance.xhtml#appearance">Appearance
Preferences - Appearance</a>.</p>
<p>If you want &brandShortName; to open a new tab instead of a new window when
you launch it and it is already running, ensure the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>If you launch &brandShortName; by command line, do not use command-line
parameters that open windows.</li>
<li>Nothing is set in the
<a href= "cs_nav_prefs_appearance.xhtml#appearance">Appearance Preferences
- Appearance</a>.</li>
<li>Set <q>Links from other applications</q> preference to <q>A new tab in
the current window</q>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<p>[<a href="#navigator_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="downloads">Navigator Preferences - Downloads</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Downloads preferences panel. If
you&apos;re not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Navigator category, click Downloads. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Navigator to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Downloads preferences panel allows you to set up how &brandShortName;
handles files you download from web pages:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>When starting a download</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Open the download manager</strong>: 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.</li>
<li><strong>Open a progress dialog</strong>: 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.</li>
<li><strong>Don&apos;t open anything</strong>: Select this if you want to
download files invisibly. No status is given for all your
downloads.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>When saving a file</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Prompt for download location and default to</strong>: Select
this if you always want to be able to choose a folder for the file to
be saved. Choose one of the following folders to be the default
location for the file:
<ul>
<li><strong>Last download folder</strong>: The default location will
be the folder you last downloaded a file to.</li>
<li><strong>Specified download folder</strong>: The default location
will be your Current Download Folder.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Automatically download files to specified download
folder</strong>: Select this if you want files to be saved to your
Current Download Folder without &brandShortName; prompting you for
the download location.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Current Download Folder</strong>: Use the button to navigate
to a folder that you want to use as your specified download folder.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>When a download completes</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Play a sound</strong>: Select this if you want
&brandShortName; to play a custom sound (typically in WAV format) when
a download is completed. Use the Browse button to select the sound file
in the file locator. To listen to the sound you&apos;ve chosen, click
Preview.</li>
<li><strong>Show an alert</strong>: Select this if you want
&brandShortName; to show an alert on the screen when a download is
completed.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information about downloading files from web pages, see
<a href= "nav_help.xhtml#plugins_and_downloads">Plug-ins and
Downloads</a>.</p>
<p>[<a href="#navigator_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<p>Copyright &copy; 2003-2010 The Mozilla Foundation.</p>
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