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 customise 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
web sites.
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 web site and message content appears in &brandShortName;.
Web Site Icons:
Show web site icons: Select this if you want see
site-specific icons, if available, in place of the bookmark icon
. Web site icons are shown to the left of the
Location Bar and Browser tabs.
Aggressively look for web site icons when the page does not
define one: If the page itself does not define a web site
icon, turning on this setting makes &brandShortName; look for a
"favicon" on the server and use that instead.
Display web site 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 web site's
own icon in the bookmarks menu or the personal toolbar.
Only when web site was loaded recently: Select
this to show the web site's own icon only if the web site has
been recently loaded and the icon is currently in the
browser's cache.
Always load web site icons for bookmarks: Select
this to always load web site icons to be displayed in the bookmarks
menu or personal toolbar, even if it's not in the cache.
Use autoscrolling: Select this to enable autoscrolling.
Clicking the middle mouse button (usually the scroll wheel) lets you scroll
the content by moving the mouse around.
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 web sites when using the
"Zoom" function. If this is not selected, the whole page,
including images, will be zoomed.
Warn me when web sites 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 web site you visit.
Note: See the separate preferences panels for colours, fonts
and languages to further customise 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
Text Encodings and Fonts.
All settings below, except for the tick box, 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 tickbox to keep a web page's font and size settings instead of
your own preferences.
This section describes how to use the Colours 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 Colours. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Appearance to expand the list.)
The Colours preferences panel allows you to set the background and text
colours on web pages, mail/news messages, and feeds:
Text and Background: Click the coloured blocks to select
a colour for displaying text and backgrounds on web pages and messages.
Use system colours: Select this to use the colours
defined by your system settings (usually the desktop theme) rather
than choosing the colours yourself.
Link Colours: Click the coloured blocks to select a colour
for displaying unvisited, active, and visited links on web pages and
messages.
Underline links: Select this to display underlined
links on web pages and messages.
When a web page provides its own colours and
backgrounds:
Always use the colours and background specified by the web
page: Allows web pages and messages to choose displayed
colours and backgrounds. Your own colours will be used if no colours
are defined by the content itself.
Use my chosen colours, ignoring the colours and background
image specified: All content uses your own display colours,
ignoring the web page or message colours and any background image.
Only ignore the page colours when using a High Contrast
theme: Allows web pages and messages to choose displayed
colours and backgrounds, unless an accessibility desktop theme
is used, in which case your own colours will be used.
. Web site icons are shown to the left of the
Location Bar and Browser tabs.