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<h1 id="advanced_preferences">Advanced Preferences</h1>
<p>This section describes how to use the Advanced preferences panel. If you are
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>Click the Advanced category.</li>
</ol>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#advanced">Advanced</a></li>
<li><a href="#scripts_and_plug-ins">Scripts &amp; Plug-ins</a></li>
<li><a href="#keyboard_navigation">Keyboard Navigation</a></li>
<li><a href="#cache">Cache</a></li>
<li><a href="#proxies">Proxies</a></li>
<li><a href="#http_networking">HTTP Networking</a></li>
<li><a href="#software_installation">Software Installation</a></li>
<li><a href="#mouse_wheel">Mouse Wheel</a></li>
<li><a href="#dom_inspector">DOM Inspector</a></li>
<li class="win"><a href="#system">System</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2 id="advanced">Advanced Preferences - Advanced</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the main Advanced 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 Advanced category.</li>
</ol>
<p>The main Advanced preferences panel allows you to enable or disable
Java<span class="win"> and Quick Launch</span>:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Enable Java</strong>: Select this to allow &brandShortName; to
interpret pages containing Java. Java is used on some Web page to
incorporate interactive and multimedia content.</li>
<li class="win"><strong>Keep &brandShortName; in memory to improve startup
performance</strong>: Select this if you want to shorten the time it takes
to start &brandShortName;. See
<q><a href="nav_help.xhtml#using_quick_launch">Using Quick
Launch</a></q> for more information about using Quick Launch.</li>
<li class="unix"><strong>Use Preferences from System</strong>: Select this to
use the already set system preferences, overriding &brandShortName;&apos;
ones.
<p><strong>Note</strong>: This option is available only in XFT/GTK2
builds.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#advanced_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="scripts_and_plug-ins">Advanced Preferences - Scripts &amp;
Plug-ins</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Scripts &amp; Plug-ins 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 Advanced category, click Scripts &amp; Plug-ins. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Scripts &amp; Plug-ins preferences panel allows you to control how
JavaScript and plug-ins are used:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Enable JavaScript for</strong>: Select these checkboxes to turn
JavaScript on:
<ul>
<li><strong>Navigator</strong>: Toggles JavaScript for web pages opened
in Navigator.</li>
<li><strong>Mail &amp; Newsgroups</strong>: Toggles JavaScript for web
pages opened in Mail &amp; Newsgroups.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Allow scripts to</strong>: Select these checkboxes to control
how JavaScript can be used:
<ul>
<li><strong>Move or resize existing windows</strong>: Allows open windows
to be resized or moved.</li>
<li><strong>Raise or lower windows</strong>: Allows windows to be placed
under or on top of other windows.</li>
<li><strong>Hide the status bar</strong>: Allows the status bar to be
hidden.</li>
<li><strong>Change status bar text</strong>: Allows status bar text to be
changed, such as in scrolling text in the status bar.</li>
<li><strong>Change images</strong>: Allows images to be changed or
animated, such as in image rollovers (images that change when the mouse
cursor is placed over them).</li>
<li><strong>Disable or replace context menus</strong>: Allows right-click
menus<span class="mac"> or, if you&apos;re using a one-button mouse,
<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-click menus</span> to be replaced or disabled by
webpages.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Enable Plug-ins for</strong>: Check this checkbox to control how
plug-ins are used:
<ul>
<li><strong>Mail &amp; Newsgroups</strong>: Allows plug-ins to be used in
Mail &amp; Newsgroups.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information about plug-ins, see
<a href="nav_help.xhtml#plugins_and_downloads">Plug-ins and Downloads</a>.
</p>
<p>[<a href="#advanced_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="keyboard_navigation">Advanced Preferences - Keyboard Navigation</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Keyboard Navigation 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 Advanced category, click Keyboard Navigation. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Keyboard Navigation preferences panel allows you to control how you use
the keyboard to <span class="noMac">navigate and </span>search for text in
web pages:</p>
<ul>
<li class="noMac"><strong>Links</strong>: If checked, pressing <kbd>Tab</kbd>
or <kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>Tab</kbd> moves between links.</li>
<li class="noMac"><strong>Buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, and selection
lists</strong>: If checked, pressing <kbd>Tab</kbd> or
<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>Tab</kbd> moves between buttons, radio buttons, check
boxes, and selection lists.</li>
<li><strong>Find automatically when typing within a web page</strong>: 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.</li>
<li><strong>Play a sound when typed text isn&apos;t found</strong>: If
checked, Find As You Type plays a sound when the typed text isn&apos;t
found in the web page.</li>
<li><strong>Clear the current search after a few seconds of
inactivity</strong>: If checked, cancels the search after a few seconds of
keyboard inactivity.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#advanced_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="cache">Advanced Preferences - Cache</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Cache 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 Advanced category, click Cache. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Advanced to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Cache preferences panel allows you to adjust the &brandShortName; memory
and disk cache:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Size</strong>: 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.</li>
<li><strong>Clear Cache</strong>: Click this to clear the disk cache.</li>
<li><strong>Cache Folder</strong>: Shows the current location of the disk
cache folder
<ul>
<li><strong>Choose Folder</strong>: Click this to choose a folder
location for the disk cache.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Compare the page in the cache to the page on the
network</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Every time I view the page</strong>: Select this if you want
&brandShortName; to compare a web page to the cache every time you view
it.</li>
<li><strong>When the page is out of date</strong>: 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.</li>
<li><strong>Once per session</strong>: Select this if you want
&brandShortName; to compare a web page to the cache once for each time
you start &brandShortName;.</li>
<li><strong>Never</strong>: Select this if you do not want
&brandShortName; to compare cached information to the network.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Prefetch web pages when idle, so that links in web pages
designed for prefetching can load faster</strong>: Select this to decrease
the time it takes to load web pages when you click a link in a web page
that uses prefetching. For more information about Link Prefetching, see the
online
<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/Link_Prefetching_FAQ.html">Link
Prefetching FAQ</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#advanced_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="proxies">Advanced Preferences - Proxies</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Proxies 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 Advanced category, click Proxies. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Advanced to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Proxies preferences panel allows you to set up &brandShortName; to use a
<a href="glossary.xhtml#proxy">proxy</a>:</p>
<p><strong>Before you start</strong>: Ask your network administrator if you
have a proxy configuration file or for the names and port numbers of the
proxy.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Direct connection to the Internet</strong>: Choose this if you
don&apos;t want to use a proxy.</li>
<li><strong>Automatically discover the proxy configuration</strong>: Choose
this if you want &brandShortName; to automatically detect and configure the
proxy settings, using the <a href="glossary.xhtml#wpad">WPAD protocol</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Automatic proxy configuration URL</strong>: Choose this if you
have a proxy configuration file or URL, then enter the configuration
URL.
<ul>
<li><strong>Reload</strong>: Click this to reload the configuration file.
<p>For more information about Automatic Proxy Configuration, see the
online
<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/catalog/end-user/customizing/enduserPAC.html">End
User Guide to Proxy AutoConfiguration</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Manual proxy configuration</strong>: Choose this if you
don&apos;t have a proxy location (URL), or the automatic proxy discovery
was unable to setup the proxy settings correctly.
<ul>
<li><strong>Proxy</strong>: Enter the name or numeric IP address of
the proxy server.</li>
<li><strong>Port</strong>: Enter the port number in the Port field. Click
on <q>Advanced</q> to set
<a href="#advanced_proxy_preferences">Advanced Proxy Preferences</a></li>
<li><strong>No Proxy for</strong>: Type the domains and/or IP addresses
that you do not want to use a proxy for. Separate each entry with a
comma. (Example: <kbd>.mozilla.org, .net.nz, 192.168.1.0/24</kbd>.)
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="advanced_proxy_preferences">Advanced Proxy Preferences</h3>
<p>If you want to use different proxies for different protocols or need to use
a SOCKS proxy:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>HTTP Proxy</strong>, <strong>SSL Proxy</strong>,
<strong>FTP Proxy</strong>, <strong>Gopher Proxy</strong>: Enter the name
or numeric IP address of the proxy server. Type the port in the Port fields.
<p><strong>Note</strong>: If you&apos;re using the same settings
for all types of proxies, click on <q>Use HTTP Proxy settings
for all protocols</q>.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>SOCKS Proxy</strong>: Enter the name or numeric IP address
of the proxy server. Enter the port number in the Port field.
<ul>
<li><strong>SOCKS v4, SOCKS v5</strong>: When entering a SOCKS Proxy,
select <q>SOCKS v4</q> or <q>SOCKS v5</q>, depending on what version
of <a href="glossary.xhtml#socks">SOCKS</a> is used for the proxy.</li>
<li><strong>Use for resolving hostnames</strong>: Select this to
use the SOCKS Proxy for resolving hostnames. This is
recommended for SOCKS v5 proxies.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#advanced_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="http_networking">Advanced Preferences - HTTP Networking</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the HTTP Networking 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 Advanced category, click HTTP Networking. (If no subcategories
are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The HTTP Networking preferences panel is used to configure HTTP-based
networking:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Direct Connection Options, Proxy Connection Options</strong>:
Choose the HTTP version and options for direct and proxy connections.
<ul>
<li><strong>Use HTTP 1.0</strong>: Choose this to use the original
version of HTTP, standardized in 1996.</li>
<li><strong>Use HTTP 1.1</strong>: 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.</li>
<li><strong>Enable Keep-Alive</strong>: Select this to keep a connection
open to make additional HTTP requests, increasing speed.</li>
<li><strong>Enable Pipelining</strong>: 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.
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Pipelining is only available with
HTTP 1.1.</p></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#advanced_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="software_installation">Advanced Preferences - Software
Installation</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Software Installation 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 Advanced category, click Software Installation. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Software Installation preferences panel is used to enable software
installation and update notification:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Allow web sites to install extensions and updates</strong>:
Select this if you want to allow web sites to install extensions and
updates to be used with &brandShortName;. You will be prompted before each
installation.</li>
<li><strong>Allowed Sites</strong>: Click this to open the Allowed Sites
dialog box, where you can view and edit the list of web sites that you
want to allow to install software:
<ul>
<li><strong>Allow</strong>: Click this to add a typed web site to the
list of allowed sites.</li>
<li><strong>Remove Site</strong>: Click this to remove a selected web
site.</li>
<li><strong>Remove All Sites</strong>: Click this to remove all of the
web sites in the current list.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Check for updates</strong>: Select this to be notified when new
versions of &brandShortName; are available. Your personal information is
not shared with &brandShortName; when verifying your version of
&brandShortName;.
<ul>
<li><strong>weekly</strong>: Choose this if you want &brandShortName; to
check once a week to see if a new version of &brandShortName; is
available.</li>
<li><strong>monthly</strong>: Choose this if you want &brandShortName; to
check once a month to see if a new version of &brandShortName; is
available.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="mouse_wheel">Advanced Preferences - Mouse Wheel</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Mouse Wheel 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 Advanced category, click Mouse Wheel. (If no subcategories
are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>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;.
Modern mice may have two wheels or a button that can be used to switch the
scroll direction of the wheel. The behaviour for the vertical wheel function
is set in the upper panel <strong>Vertical scrolling</strong> while the
horizontal mode is controlled by the lower panel <strong>Horizontal
scrolling</strong>.</p>
<ul>
<li>Select <q>No modifier key</q> or select a key that you want to use
along with the mouse wheel. Use the checkboxes below to configure mouse
wheel behavior:
<ul>
<li><strong>Scroll the document by</strong>: Choose this to scroll the
document by the number of lines (or characters for horizontal movement)
typed in the field.
<ul>
<li><strong>Use system default</strong>: Choose this to use your
system&apos;s default setting&mdash;the number of lines (characters)
you may have previously entered will be overridden.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Scroll a page up (left) or a page down (right)</strong>:
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.</li>
<li><strong>Move back and forward in the browsing history</strong>:
Choose this to use the mouse wheel to navigate back or forward to
previous pages you&apos;ve visited.</li>
<li><strong>Make the text larger or smaller</strong>: 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.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Each modifier key can be assigned to a different
function.</p>
</li>
<li>If your mouse does not have a mode for horizontal scrolling, any setting
in the lower panel <strong>Horizontal scrolling</strong> will be ignored.
</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#advanced_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="dom_inspector">Advanced Preferences - DOM Inspector</h2>
<p>DOM Inspector is an optional <a href="developer_tools.xhtml">Web development
component</a>. This section describes how to use its preferences panel.
If you are 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 Advanced category, click DOM Inspector. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Advanced to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>When you select an element, DOM Inspector can automatically highlight it by
flashing it or its border:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Blink Selected Element</strong>: Check this option to enable the
highlighting of an element that you select. By default, a flashing border
will appear around the element.
<ul>
<li><strong>Border Color</strong>: Select the color of the border around
the element.</li>
<li><strong>Border Width</strong>: Enter the width of the border around
the element.</li>
<li><strong>Blink Duration</strong>: Enter the length of time
(in milliseconds) for which you want the flashing to occur.</li>
<li><strong>Blink Speed</strong>: Enter the time interval
(in milliseconds) between the flashes.</li>
<li><strong>Invert Color</strong>: Check this option to paint the
selected element with the inverted border color. This will cause the
whole element&mdash;including its border&mdash;to flash.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="system">Advanced Preferences - System</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the System preferences panel. If
you&apos;re not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Advanced category, click System. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Advanced to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The System preferences panel allows you to specify what files and
protocols are opened using &brandShortName;:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Windows should use &brandShortName; to open these file
types</strong>: Select the file types that you want to open by default
using &brandShortName;.</li>
<li><strong>Windows should use &brandShortName; to handle these
protocols</strong>: Select the protocols that you want to open by
default using &brandShortName;.</li>
<li><strong>Alert me if other applications change these
settings</strong>: Select this if you want &brandShortName; to alert
you when other applications have changed your default &brandShortName;
file and protocol settings.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: To make &brandShortName; the default browser
easily, see <a href="cs_nav_prefs_navigator.xhtml#navigator">Navigator
Preferences - Navigator</a>. Also select <q>Alert me if other application
change these settings</q> to know when other programs become the default
programs instead of &brandShortName;.</p>
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