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Adjust Settings

Components of the Mozilla interface

Before explaining how to show and hide the toolbars, it would be useful to become acquainted with the different components. These are illustrated on the following screen.

Display, hide built-in toolbars

Method 1: Minimising or maximising a toolbar

  1. Click the small triangle to the left of the toolbar (either the Navigation toolbar or the Personal toolbar).

  2. Click the triangle a second time to display the toolbar.

Method 2: Completely hiding or displaying toolbars.

  • View->Show / Hide.

The sub-menu will indicate toolbars that are displayed by a tick next to an entry. Clicking on a toolbar that is displayed will cause it to be hidden. Clicking on a hidden toolbar has the reverse action and causes it to be displayed.

The Site navigation toolbar is treated somewhat differently as there are three options as shown on the following screen.

Set display to full screen mode

Full screen mode allows you to use the entire screen for the display of web pages. Only the Navigation bar will be displayed at the top of the screen. The rest of the screen is used for the display of the web page.

  1. View->Full Screen or press F11.

  2. Press F11 again to return to normal view mode.

Display, hide images on a Web page

The loading of graphic images can slow down the display of web sites very drastically, especially if they are graphic intensive. Often these images are of little use when the user is after information. One way of speeding up access is to suppress the display of images.

  1. Edit->Preferences.

  2. Expand the Privacy & Security category.

  3. Select Images.

  4. Check Do not load any images.

  5. Click OK.

Some images are animated. This also slows down access. You may wish to display images, but not animate them. This can be achieved by checking Never in the Animated images should loop area of the previous dialogue.

The next two screens illustrate the difference between displaying and suppressing graphic images.

Display previously visited URLs using the browser address bar

When you access a web site, Mozilla records this in its History.

  1. Click on the drop down arrow at the right hand side of the browser address bar.

    A list of recently visited sites is displayed.

  2. Click the site you wish to visit.

An alternative is to use the Menu bar. The Go menu item will display sites visited during the current browser session.

  1. Click on Go in the menu bar.

    A list of recently visited sites is displayed at the bottom of the menu.

  2. Click on the site you wish to visit or press Esc to clear the menu.

[Note] Note

These entries are automatically cleared after you quit the browser.

Delete browsing history

View the History

You can review your recent browsing activity.

  1. Go->History or press Ctrl-H.

  2. Expand Today by clicking the + symbol.

You may expand each web site to view the pages that you have visited in the site.

Delete entries

  • Highlight the entry you wish to delete and press the Delete key.

This will delete the entry and all its sub-entries.

Clear the entire History

  1. History->Go.

  2. Edit->Select all or press Ctrl+A.

  3. Press the Delete key.

Clear entries in the Location bar

  1. Edit->Preferences.

  2. Expand Navigator and select History as shown on the following screen.

  3. Click Clear Location Bar then Click OK.

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