Advanced Preferences
This section describes how to use the Advanced preferences panel. If you are not already viewing the panel,
follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Click the Advanced category.
Advanced Preferences - Advanced
This section describes how to use the main Advanced preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow
these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Click the Advanced category.
The main Advanced preferences panel allows you to customise Java, FTP passwords, and Quick Launch:
Advanced Preferences - Scripts & Plug-ins
This section describes how to use the Scripts & Plug-ins preferences panel. If you're not already viewing
it, follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click Scripts & Plug-ins. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click
Advanced to expand the list.)
The Scripts & Plug-ins preferences panel allows you to control how JavaScript and plug-ins are used:
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Enable JavaScript for: Check these checkboxes to turn JavaScript on:
- Navigator: Toggles JavaScript on for web pages opened Navigator.
- Mail & Newsgroups: Toggles JavaScript on for web pages opened in Mail & Newsgroups.
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Allow scripts to: Select these checkboxes to control how JavaScript can be used:
- Move or resize existing windows: Allows open windows to be resized or moved.
- Raise or lower windows: Allows windows to be placed under or on top of other windows.
- Hide the status bar: Allows the status bar to be hidden.
- Change status bar text: Allows status bar text to be changed, such as in scrolling text in the
status bar.
- Change images: Allows images to be changed or animated, such as in image rollovers (images that
change when the mouse cursor is placed over them).
- Create or change cookies: Allows cookies to be changed or created using JavaScript.
- Read cookies: Allows cookies to be read using JavaScript.
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Enable Plug-ins for: Check this checkbox to control how plug-ins are used:
- Mail & Newsgroups: Allows plug-ins to be used in Mail & Newsgroups.
For more information about plug-ins, see Managing Different File
Types.
Advanced Preferences - Keyboard Navigation
This section describes how to use the Keyboard Navigation preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it,
follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click Keyboard Navigation. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click
Advanced to expand the list.)
The Keyboard Navigation preferences panel allows you to control how you use the keyboard to navigate and search
for text in web pages:
- Links: If checked, pressing Tab or Shift+Tab moves between links.
- Buttons, radio buttons, check boxes and lists: If checked, pressing Tab or Shift+Tab moves between
buttons, radio buttons, check boxes and lists.
- Find automatically when typing within a web page: 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.
- Play a sound when typed text isn't found: If checked, Find As You Type plays a sound when the typed
text isn't found in the web page.
- Clear the current search after a few seconds of inactivity: If checked, cancels the search after a few
seconds of keyboard inactivity.
Advanced Preferences - Cache
This section describes how to use the Cache preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these
steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click Cache. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to expand
the list.)
The Cache preferences panel allows you to adjust the Mozilla disc cache:
- Disc Cache: Type in the amount of disc cache you want to allocate for Mozilla. Disc cache is saved to
your hard disc (drive) and can be used again even if you have turned your computer off.
- Clear Disc Cache: Click this to clear the disc cache.
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Disc Cache Folder: Shows the current location of the disc cache folder.
- Choose Folder: Click this to choose a folder location for the disc cache.
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Compare the page in the cache to the page on the network:
- Every time I view the page: Select this if you want Mozilla to compare a web page to the cache every
time you view it.
- Automatically: Select this if you want Mozilla to compare a web page to the cache when the page is
determined by the server to have expired.
- Once per session: Select this if you want Mozilla to compare a web page to the cache once for each
time you start Mozilla.
- Never: Select this if you do not want Mozilla to compare cached information to the network.
- Link Prefetching: Check this to allow Mozilla to prefetch specially-linked web pages when your
Internet connection is idle. This makes the linked pages appear faster when you click on one.
Advanced Preferences - Proxies
This section describes how to use the Proxies preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these
steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click Proxies. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to expand
the list.)
The Proxies preferences panel allows you to set up Mozilla to use a proxy:
Before you start: Ask your network administrator if you have a proxy configuration file or for the names
and port numbers of the proxy.
- Direct connection to the Internet: Choose this if you don't want to use a proxy.
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Manual proxy configuration: Choose this if you don't have a proxy location (URL).
- HTTP Proxy, SSL Proxy, FTP Proxy, Gopher Proxy: Type the name or numeric IP address of
the proxy server. Type the port in the Ports field.
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SOCKS Host: Type the name or numeric IP address of the proxy server. Type the port in the Ports field.
- SOCKS v4, SOCKS v5: When entering a SOCK Host, select "SOCKS v4" or "SOCKS v5," depending on what
version of SOCKS is used for the proxy.
- No Proxy for: Type the domains and/or IP addresses that you do not want to use a proxy for. Separate each entry with a
comma. (Example: .yourcompany.com, .yourcompany.co.nz, 192.168.1.0/24)
- Automatic proxy configuration URL: Choose this if you have a proxy configuration file or URL, then
type the configuration URL.
Advanced Preferences - HTTP
Networking
This section describes how to use the HTTP Networking preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it,
follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click HTTP Networking. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to
expand the list.)
The HTTP Networking preferences panel is used to configure HTTP-based networking:
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Direct Connection Options, Proxy Connection Options: Choose the HTTP version and options for direct and
proxy connections.
- Use HTTP 1.0: Choose this to use the original version of HTTP, standardised in 1996.
- Use HTTP 1.1: 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.
- Enable Keep-Alive: Select this to keep a connection open to make additional HTTP requests,
increasing speed.
- Enable Pipelining: 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.
Note: Pipelining is only available with HTTP 1.1.
Advanced Preferences - Software Installation
This section describes how to use the Software Installation preferences panel. If you're not already viewing
it, follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click Software Installation. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click
Advanced to expand the list.)
The Software Installation preferences panel is used to enable software installation and update
notification:
- Enable software installation: Select this if you want Mozilla to prompt you when new software needs to
be installed and used with Mozilla.
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Check for updates: Select this to be notified when new versions of Mozilla are available. Your personal
information is not shared with Mozilla when verifying your version of Mozilla.
- weekly: Choose this if you want Mozilla to check once a week to see if a new version of Mozilla is
available.
- monthly: Choose this if you want Mozilla to check once a month to see if a new version of Mozilla is
available.
Advanced Preferences - Mouse Wheel
This section describes how to use the Mouse Wheel preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow
these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click Mouse Wheel. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to
expand the list.)
The Mouse Wheel preferences panel allows you to control how the mouse wheel on your mouse (in between your
mouse buttons) is used in Mozilla:
Advanced
Preferences - System
This section describes how to use the System preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these
steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click System. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to expand
the list.)
Note: The System preferences panel appears only on Windows-based platforms.
The System preferences panel allows you to specify what files and protocols are opened using Mozilla:
- Windows should use Mozilla to open these file types: Select the file types that you want to open by
default using Mozilla.
- Windows should use Mozilla to handle these protocols: Select the protocols that you want to open by
default using Mozilla.
- Alert me if other applications change these settings: Select this if you want Mozilla to alert you
when other applications have changed your default Mozilla file and protocol settings.
Tip: To make Mozilla the default browser easily, see Navigator Preferences - Navigator. Also select "Alert me if other
application change these settings" to know when other programs become the default programs instead of Mozilla.
16 June 2003
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