Mozilla web browser: HowTo

If you don't already have mozilla, download it here.

Using tabs

Right-click on a link, "Open in new tab"

In Edit-preferences-tabbed browsing, you can set it to use control-click, or middle-click to use a new tab, both of which are very useful

Blocking pop-up adverts

Edit, preferences, privacy, popup windows, then tick the box "block unrequested popups"

Blocking banner adverts

Right-click on the image, then "block images from this server"

AdBlock filters images by URL or filename, so you can kill anything with an adverty-sounding name

BannerBlind lets you block images which are the exact same size as the standard banner adverts

Misc tricks

Press F6 to put your cursor into the URL bar without having to use the mouse

To search for some text, just press / and start typing. Press Ctrl-G to go to the next match, or Ctrl-shift-g to search backwards

Opening Mailto: links in your default email app

network.protocol-handler.external.mailto

go to the about:config URL, and add this setting, set it to true

Backing up your email directory

In GNU/linux, there will be a .mozilla directory in your home directory. (it may be hidden, because it starts with a dot) -- in there, there's a 'default' directory, followed by a directory with a random name (bi363sj2s.slt or something), and all the mozilla data is within. Preferences. User-stylesheet. Email. Cookies. History...

In Windows, the directory is
c:\windows\application data\mozilla\default\...

In Win2K, the directory is
c:\documents and settings\myname.domain\mozilla\default\...

Blocking Flash adverts

It should be possible with the user stylesheet, but it doesn't seem to work for <embed> tags. So for the moment, I'd reccommend privoxy

The other main flash blocker is here

Editing configuration

Apparently, you can use about:config now

Synchronising bookmarks between home and work computers

Store bookmarks on an FTP server

See the HTTP headers in each request

Try LiveHTTP Headers

See the source-code for...

Right-click, 'show page source'

Right-click in a frame, 'frame' menu, 'show frame source'

Select some text, right-click, 'show selection source'

Encrypt email in MozillaMail

EnigMail lets you use your PGP keys, and send PGP-encrypted or signed messages. You will need to install GnuPG first

Spellcheck an email, an HTML document, or the contents of a textbox

Download the latest version of Mozilla. Version 1.5 and later will have spell-checking enabled by default

Font sizes

In linux, the system font size can look quite small for the URL bar and menus. Create a file called /home/yourname/.mozilla/default/.../chrome/userChrome.css, and add something like this:

* {
font-size: 5.0mm !important;
font-family: bitstream vera sans !important;
}

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