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<h1 id="navigator_preferences">Browser Preferences</h1>
<p>This section describes how to use the Browser preference panel. If
you'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 Browser.</li>
</ol>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#navigator">Browser</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="#location_bar">Location Bar</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">Browser Preferences - Browser</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the main browser preferences panel. If
you'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 Browser category.</li>
</ol>
<p>The Browser 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>Browser Startup</strong> to set what the browser
will display at startup.</li>
<li>Select <strong>New Window</strong> to set what will be displayed
when opening a new browser 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 the browser to display a blank
page.</li>
<li><strong>Home page</strong>: Causes the browser to load your home
page (specified below).</li>
<li><strong>Last page visited</strong>: Causes the browser 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 the browser as your home page.</li>
<li><strong>Use Current Group</strong>: If you have two or more browser
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 browser 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">Browser Preferences - History</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the History preferences panel. If
you'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 Browser category, click History. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Browser to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The History preferences panel allows you to configure three history settings
for the browser.</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">Browser Preferences - Languages</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Languages preferences panel. If
you'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 Browser category, click Languages. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Browser 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. In the dialog, select a language from the list.
If you want to add a language that is not in the list, type a language
code (both two- and three-letter codes can be used) in the field below
the list. See the online document
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php">Codes
for the Representation of Names of Languages</a> for a complete list of
language codes. Click OK to close the dialog and save your
changes.</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">Browser Preferences - Helper Applications</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Helper Applications preferences panel.
If you'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 Browser category, click Helper Applications. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Browser to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Helper Applications preferences panel lets you choose applications and
other handlers to handle different types of content (e.g. PDF documents).
It shows you a list of content types and lets you select a handler for each
type. To filter the list, use the search field. Text entered in there will
narrow the list to entries containing that text either in the type description
or the currently selected action.</p>
<p>You can choose a local application to handle any type. For some types, you
can also choose a web application to handle the type, choose
<!-- a feature (like <a href="glossary.xhtml#live_bookmark">Live Bookmarks</a> for
feeds) or --> a <a href="glossary.xhtml#plugin">plugin</a> in &brandShortName; to
handle the type, or save the type on your computer.</p>
<p>To choose a handler for a type, select the type from the list. The current
handler for the type will turn into a menu. Open the menu and select the
handler you want to handle the type. Depending on the actual type, you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Choose an application by selecting it from the menu. If you want a local
application that is not in the menu to handle the type, select
<strong>Use other…</strong> from the menu and navigate to its location.</li>
<li>Choose a <!-- feature or --> plugin by selecting it from the menu.</li>
<li>Save files of this type on your computer by selecting
<strong>Save File</strong> from the menu. If you have selected the
<strong>Automatically download files to specified download folder</strong>
preference in the <strong>Downloads</strong> panel, &brandShortName; will
save content of this type on your computer automatically. Otherwise, when
you encounter this type, &brandShortName; will prompt you for a location on
your computer to save it to.</li>
<li>Tell &brandShortName; to <strong>always ask</strong> what to do when
encountering this type. When you choose this option, a dialog will always be
shown when files of this type are accessed, and you can choose how to handle
that specific file from there.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> When a plugin is available to handle a type, and you
choose another handler for that type, &brandShortName; will only use your
chosen handler when you access the type directly. When the type is embedded
inside a web page, &brandShortName; will continue to use the plugin to handle
it. See also
<a href="nav_help.xhtml#plugins_and_downloads">Plugins and Downloads</a>.
</p>
<p>[<a href="#navigator_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="location_bar">Browser Preferences - Location Bar</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Location Bar preferences panel. If
you'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 Browser category, click Location Bar. (If no subcategories
are visible, double-click Browser to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Location Bar Preferences panel lets you fine-tune the behavior of the
Location Bar.</p>
<ul>
<li id="location_bar_autocomplete"><strong>Autocomplete</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Autocomplete from your browsing history as you type</strong>:
Select this to let &brandShortName; automatically show suggestions from
your browsing history when you type in the Location Bar.
<ul>
<li><strong>Match only website's you've typed
previously</strong>: Shows only websites that you'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>
<li><strong>Automatically prefill the best match</strong>: As you
type in the Location Bar, &brandShortName; will automatically
complete your web address using the visited website it most closely
matches. <span class="unix"><strong>Note</strong>: Having this
option on will prefill local addresses (like paths to files on your
hard drive) even if you have turned off <q>Autocomplete from your
browsing history as you type</q>.</span></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.
<span class="unix"><strong>Note</strong>: If you have turned off
<q>Autocomplete from your browsing history as you type</q>
matching results from locations on your hard drive will still be
shown in the drop-down list.</span></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Internet Search Engine</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Show default search engine</strong>: Shows a drop-down list item,
allowing you to search with the default search engine for words you
enter.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Unknown Locations</strong>
<ul>
<li><strong>Add <q>www.</q> and <q>.com</q> to the location if a web page
is not found</strong>: Select this if you want &brandShortName; to
automatically add <tt>www.</tt> to the beginning and <tt>.com</tt> to
the end of a web page location that can't be found. For more
detailed information about this feature, see the online document
<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/domain-guessing.html">
Domain Guessing</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Perform a web search when entered text is not a web
location</strong>: Select this to let &brandShortName; automatically
search the web for text entered in the Location Bar. If the text
you've typed is not a web location, &brandShortName; will do a web
search when you press <kbd class="noMac">Enter</kbd>
<kbd class="mac">Return</kbd> in the Location Bar. See the online
document
<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/internet-keywords.html">
Internet Keywords</a> for a more technical description about this
feature. <strong>Note</strong>: The search engine used can not be
changed by the <a href="#internet_search">Internet Search
Preferences</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#navigator_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="internet_search">Browser Preferences - Internet Search</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Internet Search preferences panel. If
you'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 Browser category, click Internet Search. (If no subcategories
are visible, double-click Browser 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">Browser Preferences - Tabbed Browsing</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Tabbed Browsing preferences panel. If
you'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 Browser category, click Tabbed Browsing. (If no subcategories
are visible, double-click Browser 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
browser 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 Browser
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">Browser Preferences - Downloads</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Downloads preferences panel. If
you'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 Browser category, click Downloads. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Browser 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'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'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">Plugins and
Downloads</a>.</p>
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