This section describes how to use the Appearance preferences panels. If
you're not already viewing one of these panels, follow these steps:
Open the &brandShortName;Edit menu and choose Preferences.
Click the Appearance category.
The Appearance preferences panel allows you to set &brandShortName; startup
options and customize the user interface:
When &brandShortName; starts up, open: Select the
components you want to use when you start up &brandShortName;
Show toolbars as:
Pictures and text: Select this to see text
underneath each of the toolbar buttons.
Pictures only: Select this to show the toolbar
buttons only.
Text only: Select this to show text buttons
only.
Show Tooltips: Select this if you want to have
tooltips appear when the cursor
is placed over parts of the &brandShortName; user interface and some
websites.
User Interface Language: This setting allows you to
change the language used in the user interface of &brandShortName;.
Additional languages can be installed from the &brandShortName; home page.
Note: You must restart &brandShortName; for a new language
setting to take effect.
This section describes how to use the Content preferences panel.
If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
Open the &brandShortName;Edit menu and choose Preferences.
Under the Appearance category, click Content. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Appearance to expand the
list.)
The Content preferences panel allows you to change settings that influence
how website and message content appears in &brandShortName;.
Website Icons:
Show website icons: Select this if you want see
site-specific icons, if available, in place of the bookmark icon
. Website icons are shown to the left of the
Location Bar and Browser tabs.
Aggressively look for website icons when the page does not
define one: If the page itself does not define a website
icon, turning on this setting makes &brandShortName; look for a
"favicon" on the server and use that instead.
Display website icons in bookmarks menu and toolbar:
Never show icons for bookmarks: Select this if
you only want to see the default icons but not the website's
own icon in the bookmarks menu or the personal toolbar.
Only when website was loaded recently: Select
this to show the website's own icon only if the website has
been recently loaded and the icon is currently in the
browser's cache.
Always load website icons for bookmarks: Select
this to always load website icons to be displayed in the bookmarks
menu or personal toolbar, even if it's not in the cache.
Use smooth scrolling: Select this to enable smooth
scrolling. Pressing the Page Down key when this is enabled
will—instead of an immediate jump—smoothly scroll the content
down to the next page.
Use hardware acceleration when available: Select this to
let &brandShortName; use hardware acceleration (if available) to render web
sites. If you experience problems with the visual presentation of web
content, disabling hardware acceleration may solve the issue.
Resize large images to fit in the browser window: Select
this if you want &brandShortName; to automatically shrink large stand-alone
images so they will fit in the browser window. Clicking on the resized
image will make it appear at full size.
Zoom only text instead of full pages: Select this if you
want &brandShortName; to only resize text of websites when using the
"Zoom" function. If this is not selected, the whole page,
including images, will be zoomed.
Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the
page: Select this to let &brandShortName; block automatic meta
redirection (HTTP-EQUIV=refresh) requests by default. When a redirect is
supposed to be executed, a notification bar is shown instead which allows
you to permit the redirect on a case-by-case basis.
Remember zoom levels on a per-site basis: Select
this if you want the system to remember the specific zoom level for
each website you visit.
Note: See the separate preferences panels for colors, fonts
and languages to further customize content appearance and the Privacy &
Security section for privacy-related settings that also might influence how
content appears to you.
This section describes how to use the Fonts preferences panel. If
you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
Open the &brandShortName;Edit menu and choose Preferences.
Under the Appearance category, click Fonts. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Appearance to expand the list.)
The Fonts preferences panel allows you to set page font type and size.
Note: Some font styles may not be selectable because the
selected language does not have fonts available for that style.
Fonts for: Choose a language group/script. For instance,
to set default fonts for West European languages/script (Latin), choose
Western. For Unicode or a language/script not yet in the list, choose
Unicode. For more information, including User Defined,
see Selecting
Character Encodings and Fonts.
All settings below, except for the checkbox, are stored per language group;
each can have its own set of font definitions.
Proportional: Select whether proportional text
should be serif (like Times Roman) or sans-serif (like Arial). You can
also specify what font size you want for proportional text.
Proportional text is variable in width, so characters and letters vary
in width.
Serif: Select a serif font you want to use for
web pages.
Sans-serif: Select a sans-serif font you want to use
for web pages.
Cursive: Select a cursive font you want to use for
web pages.
Fantasy: Select a fantasy font you want to use for
web pages.
Monospace: Select a monospace font (like Courier)
and size you want to use for web pages. Monospace text is fixed in
width, so each character or letter takes the same amount of space.
Minimum font size: Select the smallest font size you
want to be shown on web pages.
Allow documents to use other fonts: Select
this checkbox to keep a web page's font and size settings instead of
your own preferences.
This section describes how to use the Colors preferences panel. If
you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
Open the &brandShortName;Edit menu and choose Preferences.
Under the Appearance category, click Colors. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Appearance to expand the list.)
The Colors preferences panel allows you to set the background and text
colors on web pages:
Text and Background: Click the colored blocks to select
a color for displaying text and backgrounds on web pages.
Use system colors: Select this to use your system
color settings.
Link Colors: Click the colored blocks to select a color
for displaying unvisited, active, and visited links on web pages.
Underline links: Select this to display underlined
links on web pages.
When a web page provides its own colors and
backgrounds:
Always use the colors and background specified by the web
page: Allows the web page to choose displayed colors and
backgrounds.
Use my chosen colors, ignoring the colors and background
image specified: Allow you to choose displayed colors,
ignoring the web page colors and background image.
. Website icons are shown to the left of the
Location Bar and Browser tabs.