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 customize 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
websites.
Hide Toolbar Grippies: This option is
not available on macOS.Check this if you want to
hide the menubar and toolbar grippies
preventing accidental collapses of menubars and toolbars.
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.
Date and Time Formatting: There are usually differences
how settings like date and time are formatted, depending on the region
(locale). Select how &brandShortName; displays such values:
Application locale: Select this to show values in
the regional way of &brandShortName;'s user interface language.
Regional Settings locale: Select this to show
values in the way as defined by your operating system's settings.
Nots: You must restart &brandShortName; for a change in
language or formatting settings to take effect. In many cases, the choices
will show the same language unless you have additional language pack(s)
installed or use a localized version of &brandShortName; for a language
which is different from your operating-system's settings.
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 website and message content appears in &brandShortName;.
Website icons:
Show website icons: Select this if you want see
site-specific icons, if available, in place of the bookmark icon
. Website icons are shown to the left of the
Location Bar and Browser tabs.
Aggressively look for website icons when the page doesn't
define one: If the page itself does not define a website
icon, turning on this setting makes &brandShortName; look for a
"favicon" on the server and use that instead.
Scrolling:
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.
Zoom options:
Range from [__] to [__] %: Defines the range of zoom
levels observed when opening the Zoom menu from the View main menu or
when using the mouse
wheel or the
keyboard
shortcuts to increase or decrease the zoom. Note:
after changing these values, they become effective only for
new windows, not in the ones which are already open.
Zoom only text instead of full pages: Select this if
you want &brandShortName; to only resize text of websites when using
the "Zoom" function. If this is not selected, the whole page,
including images, will be zoomed.
Remember zoom levels on a per-site basis: Select
this if you want the system to remember the specific zoom level for
each website you visit.
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.
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.
Warn me when websites 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.
Note: See the separate preferences panels for colors, fonts
and languages to further customize 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 checkbox, 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 checkbox to keep a web page's font and size settings instead of
your own preferences.
This section describes how to use the Colors 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 Colors. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Appearance to expand the list.)
The Colors preferences panel allows you to set the background and text
colors on web pages, mail/news messages, and feeds:
Text and Background: Click the colored blocks to select
a color for displaying text and backgrounds on web pages and messages.
Use system colors: Select this to use the colors
defined by your system settings (usually the desktop theme) rather
than choosing the colors yourself.
Link Colors: Click the colored blocks to select a color
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 colors and
backgrounds:
Always use the colors and background specified by the web
page: Allows web pages and messages to choose displayed
colors and backgrounds. Your own colors will be used if no colors
are defined by the content itself.
Use my chosen colors, ignoring the colors and background
image specified: All content uses your own display colors,
ignoring the web page or message colors and any background image.
Only ignore the page colors when using a High Contrast
theme: Allows web pages and messages to choose displayed
colors and backgrounds, unless an accessibility desktop theme
is used, in which case your own colors will be used.
This section describes how to use the Media 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 Media. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Appearance to expand the list.)
The Media preferences panel allows you to determine how to handle audio and
video content as well as image animation:
Enable Autoplay of HTML5 media content:
Check this option to automatically play audio or video media as soon
as such content is loaded.
Uncheck this option if you want such media to play only when you
explicitly request it.
Animated images should loop: These settings control how
many times animated images repeat their animation:
As many times as the image specifies: Select this if
you want image animation to repeat as many times as specified within
each image. (This option is selected by default.)
Once: Select this if you want image animation to
occur once, overriding the number of times specified within each
image.
Never: Select this if you do not want image
animation.
Note: This options apply to HTML5 media and animated images
(e.g., GIF or PNG) only, thus not to any media handled by a plugin.
. Website icons are shown to the left of the
Location Bar and Browser tabs.