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This is where you can make the following general settings for Mozilla Firefox Internet browser.
Under Text animation, you can turn off annoying text effects, e.g. constant flashing or horizontally
scrolling text (marquees). If these effects are a nuisance to you, you can disable them by selecting the
options Disable blinking text and Disable scrolling text (marquees).
Under Error messages you can specify whether error messages regarding a failed connection attempt
to a web server should be shown as a window (dialog) or as a web page in the browser window.
Under Sidebar position you can specify whether the sidebar should appear on the right or left side of
the browser window. The sidebar can contain your bookmarks, history and downloads by default.
Operation
This is where you can make changes regarding the usage of Mozilla Firefox.
Under Address bar you can specify that addresses will be automatically completed in the address bar,
i.e. Internet addresses appear automatically in the address bar after you have entered the first few
letters of the address (provided that you have already visited this website).
For Mozilla Firefox 2 and more recent versions, you can also specify whether the Load address button
should appear beside the address bar.
Under Open submenus you can specify how long before a submenu automatically opens when you
hover over it with the cursor.
Windows
This is where you can specify how popup windows and links should be displayed in Mozilla Firefox and
how much influence websites can have on the display of the popup window.
In the Opening links section, you can specify whether, after clicking on a link, the contents should be
displayed in the current window or in a new window.
In the JavaScript section, under Allowed window manipulation, you can limit changes that
websites are allowed to make to popup windows. Some web sites try to hide the navigation bars in a
popup window so that it looks like a Windows message dialog. You can prevent this here.
Tabs (Mozilla Firefox 2 or later versions)
Here you can make the settings for the Mozilla Firefox tabs.
In the "Close" button section, you can specify where the Close button for the tabs should appear. You
can choose from four different positions.
In the Minimum width section, you can specify the minimum width of the tabs, from Mozilla Firefox 2
onwards. If more than one tab is open, the width of each tab will be automatically reduced until the
minimum width set here has been reached. If further tabs are opened, a scrollbar will be shown on the
right-hand side of the screen which you can use to scroll to the tabs that are not visible.
Under Color of active tab you can use the Highlight with color option to specify which color should
be used to highlight the tab currently active in the browser. Click on the Change button to change the
color used to highlight the top and bottom borders of the active tab.