Advanced Preferences
This section describes how to use the Advanced preference panel. If you are
not already viewing the panel, follow these steps:
1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Choose Advanced. (Click the triangle next to Advanced to expand the list.)
Advanced Preferences - Advanced
Used to set features that help interpret Web pages in Mozilla.
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Advanced Preferences - Cache
Used to set how Mozilla caches Web pages.
- Memory Cache: Type in the amount of memory-based cache you want to
allocate for Mozilla. Memory cache is erased when you turn off or restart
the computer.
- Disk Cache: Type in the amount of disk cache, and disk cache you
want to allocate for Mozilla. Disk cache is saved to your hard disk (drive)
and can be used again.
- Clear Memory Cache: Click this to clear the memory cache.
- Clear Disk Cache: Click this to clear the memory 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.
- Automatically: Select this if you want Mozilla to compare a
web page to the cache when the page is determined by the server to haved 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.
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Advanced Preferences - Proxies
Used to set up proxies in Mozilla.
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). Type the name or numeric IP address of the proxy server for
each type of server (FTP, Gopher, HTTP, SSL, SOCKS). In "No Proxy for:,"
type the domains that you do not want to use a proxy for. Separate each domain
with a comma. (Example: .yourcompany.com, .yourcompany.co.nz)
- Automatic proxy configuration URL: Choose this if you have a proxy
configuration file or URL, then type the configuration URL.
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Advanced Preferences - Software Installation
Used to enable software installation used with Mozilla.
- 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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Advanced Preferences - Mouse Wheel
Used to set up Mozilla to use a mouse wheel.
- Modifier Key: Use the the drop-down list to choose a key that you
want to press when using the mouse wheel. Select on of the radio buttons in
order to choose the behavior of the mouse wheel. (for scrolling and text).
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Advanced Preferences - System
Used 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 (HTML, JPEG, GIF,
PNG, XML, XUL).
- Windows should use Mozilla to handle these protocols: Select the
protocols that you want to open by default using Mozilla (http, https, ftp,
chrome, gopher).
- 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.
Note: System preferences appear only on Windows-based platforms.
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28 June, 2001
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