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Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Options / Preferences
This document explains all of the options preferences available in the Tools >> Optionswindow of Mozilla Firefox 1.5.

In this section:

• General Options Preferences
• Privacy Options Preferences
• Content Options Preferences
• Tabs Options Preferences
• Accessibility Options
• Browsing Options
• Languages Options
• Firefox 1.5 Update Options

General Options / Preferences

Home Page
Here you can specify the page (or tab group) that Firefox 1.5 will show when you launch it or press the Home button. Enter the address in the Location(s) field i.e. http://www.linxdata.net/news

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Options General

Click Use Current Page(s) to use the page you're currently visiting. You can also use multiple home pages. If more than one browser tab is currently opened, this button will set the whole tab group as a start page.

To specify the home page(s) using a bookmark, click Use Bookmark.... Selecting a whole bookmark folder will load all the bookmarks inside it in tabs.

If you don't want a home page to be loaded, click Use Blank Page.

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Privacy Options Preferences
The Privacy panel contains options preferences related to your privacy. As you browse the web, information on where you have been, what pages you have visited, etc. are stored here. You can click the corresponding Clear button on each but the Passwords tab to clear that information. If you really want to delete all your Passwords at once, click View Saved Passwords and then click the Remove All button in the Password Manager dialogue.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Options Privacy History

Clear Private Data Settings
Firefox 1.5 also allows you to clear certain or all items by pressing Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Del or selecting Tools >> Clear Private Data.... You can also change the option preference to make Firefox 1.5 clear your data when you close Firefox 1.5. Options Preferences for this are in the Clear Private Data dialogue.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Tools Clear Private Data

To display section-specific options preferences, display a section by clicking on its tab.

History
Here you can specify how long you want Firefox 1.5 to remember what pages you have visited. The default is 9 days.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Options Privacy History Settings

Saved Forms
Save information I enter in forms and the Search bar

When you enter information in web forms, Firefox 1.5 remembers what you type and automatically makes suggestions when you enter information again. To stop this behaviour, deselect this option preference.

Firefox Web Browser Options Privacy Saved Forms

Passwords

Remember Passwords
Firefox 1.5 can securely save passwords you enter in web forms to make it easier to log on to web sites. Clear this option preference to prevent Firefox 1.5 from remembering your passwords.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Options Privacy Passwords

Set/Change Master Password
Firefox 1.5 can protect sensitive information such as saved passwords and certificates. If you create a Master Password, Firefox 1.5 will ask you to enter it once per session as soon as it is needed. You can set or change the master password by clicking this button. Click OK to set your password.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Options Privacy Change Master Password

Remove Master Password
Click this button to remove your current master password. You will have to enter your current master password to do this.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Options Privacy Remove Master Password

View Saved Passwords
You can manage saved passwords and delete individual passwords by clicking the View Saved Passwords button.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Password Manager

Download History
The Download Manager (accessible from Tools, by pressing Ctrl/Cmd+JCtrl/Cmd+Y , or by clicking the View Download History button) stores shortcuts to your recent downloads. The Downloads options preferences are available in the Downloads panel.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Options Privacy Download History

Remove files from the Download Manager:
Choose whether the list of the recently downloaded files is purged upon successful download, or when Firefox 1.5 exits, or whether you want to purge the list manually. To purge the list, click the Clear Download History Now button below or the Clean Up button in the Download Manager.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Options Privacy Remove Files From the Download Manager Options

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Content Options Preferences

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Options Content

Block Popup Windows
By default, Firefox 1.5 blocks annoying popup windows on web sites. Deselecting this option preference will disable popup blocking.

Some web sites make legitimate use of popup windows. Therefore, you can allow these sites to open popups anyway. To do so, click Allowed Sites, enter the site name i.e. http://www.linxdata.net, and click Allow.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Allowed Sites - Popups

To remove a web site from the list, select it and then click Remove Site. To clear the list completely, click Remove All Sites.

Warn me when web sites try to install extensions or themes
Firefox 1.5 will always ask you to confirm installations of extensions or themes. To prevent un requested installation prompts which may lead to accidental installations, Firefox 1.5 warns you when a web site tries to install an extension or theme and blocks the installation prompt. To allow installations from certain sites, click Exceptions, enter the site name i.e. http://www.linxdata.net, and click Allow. Uncheck this option preference to disable the warning for all sites.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Allowed Sites - Software Installation

Load Images
By default images are loaded on web pages. Deselect this option preference to disable images completely.

• for the originating web site only

Enabling this option preference will make sure that only images located at the current web site are loaded.

Depending on if you enable images, you can change which sites are blocked or which sites can load images by clicking Exceptions. Enter the site you want to allow/deny images from i.e. http://www.linxdata.net and click Allow to allow images, or click Block to block the images.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Exceptions Images

Enable Java
Java is a popular programming language for the web developed by Sun Microsystems. A single Java program can run on many different kinds of computers, thus avoiding the need for programmers to create a separate version of each program for each kind of computer. Deselect this option preference to disable Java applets in Firefox 1.5. NOTE: In order for Java applets to work, you must install the Java plugin.

Enable JavaScript
JavaScript is a scripting language commonly used to construct web pages. JavaScript is often used to dynamically validate forms and select buttons. Disabling JavaScript may cause some sites to not work properly.

Advanced JavaScript Settings

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Advanced Javascript Settings

Move or resize existing windows
Deselect this option preference to disable moving and resizing windows using scripts.

Raise or lower windows
Deselect this option preference to make sure scripts cannot raise or lower windows.

Disable or replace context menus
Deselect this option preference to prevent web pages from disabling or changing the Firefox 1.5 context menu.

Hide the status bar
Deselect this option preference to force the status bar to be displayed in popup windows.

Change status bar text
Deselect this option preference to disable annoying status bar text scrolling and Web address hiding.

Fonts & Colours

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Fonts & Colours

Default Font and Size
Web pages are usually displayed in the font and size specified here. However, web pages may override these choices unless you specify otherwise in the Advanced Fonts dialogue.

Click the Advanced... button to access more fonts options preferences.

Advanced Fonts Dialogue:

1. From the Fonts for drop-down list, choose a language group/script. For instance, to set default fonts for the West European languages/scripts (Latin), choose Western. For a language/script not yet in the list, choose Other Languages.
2. Select whether proportional text should be serif (like "Times New Roman") or sans-serif (like "Arial"). Then specify the font size you want for proportional text.
3. Specify the font to use for Serif, Sans-serif and Mono space fonts. You can also change the size for Mono space fonts.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Fonts

You can also specify the display resolution, which is normally 96 dpi. Furthermore, you can set the minimum font size to be used on screen. This can be useful on some sites that use very small fonts that are barely readable.

Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above

By default Firefox 1.5 uses the fonts specified by the web page author. Disabling this option preference will force all sites to use your default fonts instead.

Character Encoding
The character encoding selected here will be used to display pages that do not specify which encoding to use.

Colours Dialogue:

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Colours

Text and Background
Here you can change the default text and background colour to be used on web pages that haven't specified that information. Click on the colour samples to select colours.

Use system colours
Select this option preference to use the colours defined in your OS settings instead of the colours specified above.

Link Colours
Here you can change the default colours for Web links. Click on the colour samples to select colours.

Underline links
By default, links are underlined on web pages. Deselect this option preference to disable this. NOTE: Many sites specify their own styling rules and this option preference has no effect on those sites.

Allow pages to choose their own colours, instead of my selections above
By default, Firefox 1.5 uses the colours specified by the web page author. Deselecting this option preference will force all sites to use your default colours instead.

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Tabs Options Preferences

Firefox Web Browser Options Tabs

Open links from other applications in:
When other applications on your computer display a web page, Firefox 1.5 opens the page in the most recently displayed tab or window. You can make Firefox 1.5 open the page elsewhere by changing this option preference.

Force links that open new windows to open in:
Firefox 1.5 opens new windows from links when web pages request them. If you prefer to use tabs as you browse, this behaviour may be counterproductive. You can force Firefox 1.5 to open links that would normally be opened in new windows to be opened elsewhere. To do so, select this option preference and choose the behaviour you desire.

Hide the tab bar when only one web site is open
If you're only viewing one web page in a Firefox 1.5 window, the tab bar is not shown. Deselect this option preference to always show the tab bar.

Select new tabs opened from links
When you middle-click on Web links (or hold down Ctrl/Cmd while clicking with the left mouse button), the links will be opened in a new tab. That tab will not be shown directly; it will be loaded in a background tab. Select this option preference to load the link in a foreground tab instead, which will show that tab directly.

Warn when closing multiple tabs
When you close a window with multiple tabs, Firefox 1.5 will ask you to confirm your choice. This prevents you from accidentally closing the whole window when you wish to close only the current tab. Deselect this box to skip past the warning and have Firefox 1.5 automatically close the window.

Advanced Options Preferences
The advanced panel contains many options preferences that are less likely to be used by most people but are still useful and sometimes critical options preferences for some people.

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General tab

Accessibility

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Options Advanced General

Allow text to be selected with the keyboard
Also known as Caret Browsing, this specifies whether a moveable cursor is displayed, allowing you to select text with the keyboard. Some accessibility aids, such as screen readers and screen magnifiers, use the system caret to determine which area of the screen to read or magnify. You can toggle this mode by pressing F7.

Begin finding when you begin typing
When this option preference is enabled, Firefox 1.5 will find within the current web page what you type as you type it. While you are finding typed text in the page, the Find Toolbar will automatically display at the bottom of the window to show information about what you've found.

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Browsing

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Options Advanced General

Resize large images to fit in the browser window
This feature is similar to the one seen in Internet Explorer 6. It makes images that are larger than can be fit on the screen shrink automatically so you can view the whole picture. Click on the image to view it at full size.

Use auto scrolling
Auto scrolling is a useful feature which allows you to scroll the page by just holding down the middle mouse button (usually the scroll wheel) and move the mouse up or down. Some people find this annoying, so auto scrolling can be disabled with this option preference.

Use smooth scrolling
Smooth scrolling can be very useful if you read a lot of long pages. Normally, when you press Page Down, the view jumps directly down one page. With smooth scrolling, it slides down more smoothly, so you can see how much it scrolls. This makes it easier to resume reading from where you were before.

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Languages
Some web pages are offered in more than one language. Click the Edit Languages... button to specify your preferred languages.

Languages Dialogue:
To add a language, press Select a language to add..., choose the language, and click the Add button. Remove a language by selecting it in the list of active languages and clicking the Remove button.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Options Advanced Languages

You can reorder languages to determine the preferred one in case a page is provided in two or more of your selected languages. Do this using the Move Up and Move Down buttons.

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Update tab
Firefox 1.5 can check whether updates to installed extensions, themes, or Firefox 1.5 itself are available.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Options Advanced Updates

Automatically check for updates to:
By default Firefox 1.5 automatically checks for updates to itself, to extensions and themes, and to search engines so you'll always know you have the most up-to-date version. You can turn off this behaviour by deselecting the appropriate option preference here.

When updates to Firefox 1.5 are found, Ask me what I want to do

Updates to Firefox 1.5 are typically installed automatically by default. Select this option preference to manually control how and when updates are installed. Automatically download and install the update

When this option preference is selected, Firefox 1.5 updates will be automatically downloaded and will be installed the next time Firefox 1.5 is restarted. The Warn me if this will disable extensions or themes option preference determines whether you will be warned before the installation of an update which would require an incompatible extension or theme to be disabled because no newer, compatible version exists. The warning will allow you to postpone installation of the update, though at the expense of improvements included in it.
If all extensions and themes are compatible or can be updated to be compatible, the Firefox 1.5 update will be installed. Upon restart you will be asked to install any needed extension and theme updates so that you can continue to use them.

Show Update History
Firefox 1.5 automatically records the updates you have installed. You can view information about these updates by clicking this button.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Update History

NOTE: You must be running Firefox 1.5 as an administrator/root or as the user who originally installed Firefox 1.5 to install Firefox 1.5 updates.

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