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 (Mozilla menu on Mac OS X) 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 (Mozilla menu on Mac OS X) and choose Preferences.
2. Click the Advanced category.
The main Advanced preferences panel allows you to customize 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 (Mozilla menu on Mac OS X) 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:
- Enable JavaScript for: Select these checkboxes to turn JavaScript
on:
- Navigator: Toggles JavaScript for web pages opened in Navigator.
- Mail & Newsgroups: Toggles JavaScript for web pages opened in
Mail & Newsgroups.
- 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.
- 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 (Mozilla menu on Mac OS X) 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 (Mozilla menu on Mac OS X) 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 memory and disk
cache:
- Cache: Type in the amount of disk cache you want to allocate
for Mozilla. Disk cache is saved to your hard disk (drive) and can be used again
even if you have turned your computer off.
- Clear Cache: Click this to clear the disk cache.
- Cache Folder: Shows the current location of the disk cache folder
- Choose Folder: Click this to choose a folder location for the disk
cache.
- 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.
- When the page is out of date: 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.
- Prefetch web pages when idle, so that links in web pages designed
for prefetching can load faster:
Select this to decrease the time it takes to load web pages when you
click a link in a web page that uses prefetching.
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 (Mozilla menu on Mac OS X) 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.
- 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.
- 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 address 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 (Mozilla menu on Mac OS X) 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:
- 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, standardized
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 (Mozilla menu on Mac OS X) 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.
- 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 (Mozilla menu on Mac OS X) 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.
19 June 2002
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