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<h1 id="appearance_preferences">Appearance Preferences</h1>
<p>This section describes how to use the Appearance preference 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>Double-click Appearance to expand the list, then click the name for the
preferences you want to view.</li>
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<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#appearance">Appearance</a></li>
<li><a href="#content">Content</a></li>
<li><a href="#fonts">Fonts</a></li>
<li><a href="#colors">Colors</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2 id="appearance">Appearance Preferences - Appearance</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Appearance preferences panels. If
you're not already viewing one of these panels, 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 Appearance category.</li>
</ol>
<p>The Appearance preferences panel allows you to set &brandShortName; startup
options and customize the user interface:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>When &brandShortName; starts up, open</strong>: Select the
components you want to use when you start up &brandShortName;</li>
<li>Show toolbars as:
<ul>
<li><strong>Pictures and text</strong>: Select this to see text
underneath each of the toolbar buttons..</li>
<li><strong>Pictures only</strong>: Select this to show the toolbar
buttons only.</li>
<li><strong>Text only</strong>: Select this to show text buttons
only.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Show Tooltips</strong>: Select this if you want to have
<a href="glossary.xhtml#tooltip">tooltips</a> appear when the cursor
is placed over parts of the &brandShortName; user interface and some
websites.</li>
<li><strong>User Interface Language</strong>: 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.
<strong>Note</strong>: You must restart &brandShortName; for a new language
setting to take effect.
</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#appearance_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="content">Appearance Preferences - Content</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Content 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 Appearance category, click Content. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Appearance to expand the
list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Content preferences panel allows you to change settings that influence
how website and message content appears in &brandShortName;.</p>
<ul>
<li>Website Icons:
<ul>
<li><strong>Show website icons</strong>: Select this if you want see
site-specific icons, if available, in place of the bookmark icon
<img src="chrome://communicator/skin/bookmarks/bookmark-item.png"
alt="Bookmark item icon"/>. Website icons are shown to the left of the
Location Bar and Browser tabs.</li>
<li><strong>Aggressively look for website icons when the page does not
define one</strong>: 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.</li>
<li>Display website icons in bookmarks menu and toolbar:
<ul>
<li><strong>Never show icons for bookmarks</strong>: 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.</li>
<li><strong>Only when website was loaded recently</strong>: 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.</li>
<li><strong>Always load website icons for bookmarks</strong>: 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.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Use smooth scrolling</strong>: 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.</li>
<li><strong>Resize large images to fit in the browser window</strong>: 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.</li>
<li><strong>Zoom only text instead of full pages</strong>: 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.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: 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.</p>
<p>[<a href="#appearance_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="fonts">Appearance Preferences - Fonts</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Fonts 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 Appearance category, click Fonts. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Appearance to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Fonts preferences panel allows you to set page font type and size.</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Some font styles may not be selectable because the
selected language does not have fonts available for that style.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Fonts for</strong>: Choose a language group/script. For instance,
to set default fonts for West European languages/script (Latin), choose
<q>Western.</q> For a language/script not yet in the list, choose <q>Other
Languages.</q>
<ul>
<li><strong>Proportional</strong>: 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.</li>
<li><strong>Serif</strong>: Select a serif font you want to use for
web pages.</li>
<li><strong>Sans-serif</strong>: Select a sans-serif font you want to use
for web pages.</li>
<li><strong>Cursive</strong>: Select a cursive font you want to use for
web pages.</li>
<li><strong>Fantasy</strong>: Select a fantasy font you want to use for
web pages.</li>
<li><strong>Monospace</strong>: 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.</li>
<li><strong>Minimum font size</strong>: Select the smallest font size you
want to be shown on web pages.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Allow documents to use other fonts</strong>: Select
this checkbox to keep a web page's font and size settings instead of
your own preferences.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#appearance_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="colors">Appearance Preferences - Colors</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Colors 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 Appearance category, click Colors. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Appearance to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Colors preferences panel allows you to set the background and text
colors on web pages:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Text and Background</strong>: Click the colored blocks to select
a color for displaying text and backgrounds on web pages.
<ul>
<li><strong>Use system colors</strong>: Select this to use your system
color settings.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Link Colors</strong>: Click the colored blocks to select a color
for displaying unvisited, active, and visited links on web pages.
<ul>
<li><strong>Underline links</strong>: Select this to display underlined
links on web pages.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>When a web page provides its own colors and
backgrounds</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Always use the colors and background specified by the web
page</strong>: Allows the web page to choose displayed colors and
backgrounds.</li>
<li><strong>Use my chosen colors, ignoring the colors and background
image specified</strong>: Allow you to choose displayed colors,
ignoring the web page colors and background image.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#appearance_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
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