bug 228670 - update helper application pref dialog Help. Patch by Stefan <stefan_h@hem.utfors.se>. r=rlk@trfenv.com

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>&brandShortName; Navigator Preferences Help</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="chrome://help/locale/helpFileLayout.css"
type="text/css"></link>
type="text/css"/>
</head>
<body>
<h1 id="navigator_preferences">Navigator Preferences</h1>
<p>This section describes how to use the Navigator preference panel. If you are
not already viewing the panel, follow these steps:</p>
<p>This section describes how to use the Navigator preference panel. If
you&apos;re not already viewing the panel, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Edit menu (&brandShortName; menu on Mac OS X) and choose
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<p>This section describes how to use the main Navigator preferences panel. If
you&apos;re not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Edit menu (&brandShortName; menu on Mac OS X) and choose
Preferences.</li>
<li>Click the Navigator category.</li>
</ol>
<p>The Navigator preferences panel allows you to customize three aspects of the
browser.</p>
<p>The Navigator preferences panel allows you to customize certain aspects of
the browser.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>When Navigator starts up, display</strong>: Choose one of these
buttons to determine what &brandShortName; displays when it first starts
up:
<ul>
<li><strong>Blank page</strong>: Causes Navigator to start up without
automatically loading a web page.</li>
<li><strong>Home page</strong>: Causes Navigator to load your home page
(specified below) every time it starts up.</li>
<li><strong>Last page visited</strong>: Causes Navigator to start up by
loading the page you were viewing right before you last exited
&brandShortName;.</li>
</ul>
<li><strong>Display on</strong>: Use the drop-down list in combination with
the checkboxes to control what will be displayed at startup or when you
open a new window or tab:
<ol>
<li>
<ul>
<li>Select <strong>Navigator Startup</strong> to set what Navigator
will display at startup.</li>
<li>Select <strong>New Window</strong> to set what will be displayed
when opening a new Navigator window.</li>
<li>Select <strong>New Tab</strong> to set what will be displayed
when opening a new tab.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Select one of the following checkboxes:
<ul>
<li><strong>Blank page</strong>: Causes Navigator to display a blank
page.</li>
<li><strong>Home page</strong>: Causes Navigator to load your home
page (specified below).</li>
<li><strong>Last page visited</strong>: Causes Navigator to load the
page you were viewing right before you last exited
&brandShortName;.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><strong>Default Browser:</strong> Allows you to set &brandShortName; as
the default browser or shows you that it is.
<li class="win"><strong>Default Browser:</strong> Allows you to set
&brandShortName; as the default browser or shows you that it is.
<ul>
<li><strong>Set Default Browser:</strong> Unless it is greyed out, click
this to set &brandShortName; as your default browser.</li>
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<p><strong>Caution</strong>: If you edit the field after clicking Use
Current Group, your Home Page Group will be lost.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>Restore Default</strong>: Click this to revert to the
the default home page.</li>
<li><strong>Choose File</strong>: Click this to locate a file on disk
that you want to load as your home page.</li>
</ul>
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subcategories are visible, double-click Navigator to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Helper Applications preferences panel allows you set up how different
file types are opened by other applications in &brandShortName;:</p>
<p>The Helper Applications preferences panel allows you to control how
different file types are opened by other applications in
&brandShortName;:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Specify which application should handle each file
type:</strong>
<li><strong>Specify how to handle files of each type:</strong>
<ul>
<li><strong>File types</strong>: Displays the file types that
&brandShortName; uses. Select one of them to show the following
information:
<ul>
<li><strong>Extension</strong>:Displays the file extension of the
<li><strong>Description</strong>: Displays a description of the
selected file type.</li>
<li><strong>MIME type</strong>:Displays the MIME type of the selected
<li><strong>Extension(s)</strong>: Displays the file extension(s) of
the selected file type.</li>
<li><strong>MIME type</strong>: Displays the MIME type of the
selected file type.</li>
<li><strong>When encountered</strong>: Displays what kind of action
that will be taken when &brandShortName; encounter the selected
file type.</li>
<li><strong>Handled by</strong>: Displays the program that will be
used to open each file of the selected file type.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>New Type</strong>: Click this to add a new file type. Type or
choose the description, file extension, MIME type, and
application.</li>
<li><strong>New Type</strong>: Click this to add a new file type. You see
a dialog box:
<ul>
<li><strong>Mime Type</strong>: Type the Mime type of the file type
you want to add.</li>
<li><strong>Description</strong>: Type a Descrition of the file
type you want to add.</li>
<li><strong>Extension</strong>: Type the file extension of the file
type you want to add.</li>
<li><strong>When a file of this type is encountered</strong>:
Select one option from the checkboxes:
<ul>
<li><strong>Open it using the default application</strong>:
Causes the the file to be opened by the default program in
your systems settings.</li>
<li><strong>Open it with</strong>: Causes the file to be
opened by a program you specify. Use the Choose File button
to locate the program on your disk</li>
<li><strong>Save it to disk</strong>: The file will be saved
to disk.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Always ask me when handling files of this
type</strong>: Select this to make the Download Dialog box always
appear when files of this type are encountered.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Edit</strong>: Click this to change the file-handling
information of a selected file type.</li>
<li><strong>Remove</strong>: Click this to remove a selected file
type.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Plug-in Finder Service</strong>: Select this to always use the
Plugin Finder Service (PFS) whenever &brandShortName; needs a new plug-in.
If left unselected, the PFS is only used when a plug-in location is not
provided by the web page that requires the plug-in.</li>
<li><strong>Opening files</strong>:
<li><strong>Plug-in Finder Service</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Reset</strong>: Click this to clear any file-opening
preferences you may have set by unselecting the &quot;Always ask before
opening this type of file&quot; checkbox in the download dialog
box.</li>
<li><strong>Always use the Netscape Plug-in Finder Service (PFS) to get
plug-ins</strong>: Select this to always use the Plugin Finder Service
(PFS) whenever &brandShortName; needs a new plug-in. If left
unselected, the PFS is only used when a plug-in location is not
provided by the web page that requires the plug-in.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information about handling different file types in
<p>To learn more about how to handle different file types with
&brandShortName;, see
<a href="nav_help.xhtml#managing_different_file_types">Managing Different
File Types</a>.</p>
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</ol>
<p>The Smart Browsing preferences panel allows you to better browse web pages
using Internet Keywords, and Location bar autocomplete.</p>
using Internet Keywords, Location Bar Autocomplete and Domain Guessing.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Internet Keywords</strong>:
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</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Domain Guessing</strong>: Select this if you want
&brandShortName; to automatically add <tt>www.</tt> and <tt>com.</tt> to a
web page location that can&apos;t be found. For more detailed information
about the Domain Guessing feature, see the online document
<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/domain-guessing.html"
target="_blank">Domain Guessing</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="internet_search">Navigator Preferences - Internet Search</h2>
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<p>The Tabbed Browsing preferences panel allows you to set up Tabbed
Browsing:</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: On Mac OS, where instructed to press Control (Ctrl),
press Command instead.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Tab Display</strong>:
<ul>
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New Tab&quot; to open a link.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>When opening a bookmark group</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Add tabs</strong>: Select this if you want a bookmark group
to be opened in new tabs.</li>
<li><strong>Replace existing tabs</strong>: Select this if you want a
bookmark group to replace your existing tabs.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Open tabs instead of windows for</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>Middle-click or control-click of links in a Web
page</strong>: Select this to open web page links in a new tab when
clicking a link with the middle mouse button or while pressing
Ctrl.</li>
<li><strong>Control+Enter in the Location bar</strong>: Select this to
open a web-page link in a new tab when you type a URL in the Location
Bar and press Ctrl+Enter.</li>
<li><strong><span class="mac"><kbd>Cmd</kbd>+click or
<kbd>Cmd</kbd>+<kbd>Return</kbd></span><span
class="noMac">Middle-click, <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+click or
<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Enter</kbd> on links in a Web
page</span></strong>: Select this to open Web page links in a new tab
when clicking a link <span class="mac">and holding down the
<kbd>Command</kbd> key or holding down the <kbd>Command</kbd> key and
pressing <kbd>Return</kbd> on links</span><span class="noMac">with the
middle mouse button, <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-clicking on links, and pressing
<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Enter</kbd> on links</span>.
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: Use Find Links as You Type to navigate to the
link you want to open with the keyboard commands above.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>
<kbd class="mac">Cmd</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd
class="mac">Return</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Enter</kbd> in the Location
bar</strong>: Select this to open a Web page in a new tab when you type
the URL of the page in the Location Bar and press
<kbd class="mac">Cmd</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd
class="mac">Return</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Enter</kbd>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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</ul>
<p>For more information about downloading files from web pages, see
<a href="nav_help.xhtml#managing_different_file_types">Managing Different
<a href= "nav_help.xhtml#managing_different_file_types">Managing Different
File Types</a>.</p>
<p>Copyright &copy; 2003-2004 The Mozilla Foundation.</p>

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<p><strong>Tips</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li id="full_screen_mode">To streamline the &brandShortName; interface, you
can use Full Screen mode to display web pages using almost all of your
screen. In Navigator, open the View menu and choose Full Screen. You can
also press F11.</li>
<li>To go to your home page quickly, press Alt+Home (Cmd+Home on Mac
OS).</li>
<li class="noMac" id="full_screen_mode">To streamline the &brandShortName;
interface, you can use Full Screen mode to display web pages using almost
all of your screen. In Navigator, open the View menu and choose Full
Screen. You can also press <kbd>F11</kbd>.</li>
<li>To go to your home page quickly, press <kbd class="mac">Cmd</kbd><kbd
class="noMac">Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Home</kbd>.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#navigating_web_pages">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
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<li>Click the Location Bar to select the URL that is already there.</li>
<li>Type the URL of the page you want to visit. The URL you type replaces any
text already in the Location Bar.</li>
<li>Press Enter.</li>
<li>Press <kbd class="mac">Return</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Enter</kbd>.</li>
</ol>
<p>Using the lock icon near the lower-right corner of the window, you can check
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Security for a Web Page</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: To quickly select the URL in the Location Bar, press
Ctrl+L (Cmd+L on Mac OS).</p>
<kbd class="mac">Cmd</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>L</kbd>.</p>
<table summary="table for images">
<tr>
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History. To access the Location Bar list, click the arrow at the right end of
the Location Bar.</p>
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: To quickly open the history list, press Ctrl+H
(Cmd+Shift+H on Mac OS).</p>
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: To quickly open the history list, press
<kbd class="mac">Cmd</kbd>+<kbd class="mac">Shift</kbd><kbd
class="noMac">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>H</kbd>.</p>
<p>If you don&apos;t want the Location Bar or history list to display the pages
you&apos;ve been visiting, you can clear the history list and Location Bar
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don&apos;t want to view it, click the Stop button.</p>
<p>To refresh the current page, or get the most up-to-date version, click the
Reload button, or press Ctrl+R (Cmd+R on Mac OS).</p>
Reload button, or press
<kbd class="mac">Cmd</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>R</kbd>.</p>
<table summary="table for images">
<tr>
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</table>
<p>To refresh the current page and reset all changes made (if the page contains
a form), hold down the Shift key and click the Reload button, or press
Ctrl+Shift+R (Cmd+Shift+R on Mac OS).</p>
a form), hold down the <kbd>Shift</kbd> key and click the Reload button, or
press <kbd class="mac">Cmd</kbd><kbd
class="noMac">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>R</kbd>.</p>
<p>[<a href="#navigating_web_pages">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
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</tr>
</table>
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: To quickly open or close the Sidebar, press F9.</p>
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: To quickly open or close the Sidebar, press
<kbd>F9</kbd>.</p>
<p>[<a href="#navigating_web_pages">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
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<ol>
<li>Select (highlight) any words in a web page.</li>
<li>Right-click and choose &quot;Search Web for [your selected words]&quot;
for the menu. (To right-click on Mac OS, press Option and click the mouse
button.)</li>
<li>Right-click<span class="mac">or, if you have a one-button mouse,
<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-click</span> and choose &quot;Search Web for
[your selected words]&quot; for the menu.</li>
</ol>
<p>&brandShortName; opens a new window and uses your default search engine to
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Keywords:</p>
<ul>
<li>Type a specific product, trademark, or company name and press Enter
(Return on Mac OS), to go directly to a company&apos;s website.</li>
<li>Type a specific product, trademark, or company name and press
<kbd class="mac">Return</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Enter</kbd>, to go
directly to a company&apos;s website.</li>
<li>Type certain verbs, such as &quot;shop&quot; or &quot;quote,&quot;
followed by the word you want to look up, to get specific information. For
instance, &quot;shop pets&quot; takes you to a page with links to online
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choose from the list. To see a longer list of keywords, choose List of
Keywords.</p>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> To use Internet Keywords, you must press Enter
on your keyboard (Return on Mac OS) instead of clicking the Search button.
Pressing Enter activates the Internet Keyword feature; clicking Search
initiates a search.</p>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> To use Internet Keywords, you must press
<kbd class="mac">Return</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Enter</kbd>
on your keyboard instead of clicking the Search button.
Pressing <kbd class="mac">Return</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Enter</kbd>
activates the Internet Keyword feature; clicking Search initiates a
search.</p>
<p>To see the difference, try this:</p>
<ol>
<li>Type &quot;apple imac&quot; into the Location Bar and press Enter
(Return). Apple Computer&apos;s iMac Web page appears.</li>
<li>Type &quot;apple imac&quot; into the Location Bar and press
<kbd class="mac">Return</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Enter</kbd>. Apple
Computer&apos;s iMac Web page appears.</li>
<li>Now type &quot;apple imac&quot; into the Location Bar and click Search.
You see a list of links related to Apple Computer&apos;s iMac models.</li>
</ol>
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<h3 id="quick_stock_quotes">Quick Stock Quotes</h3>
<p>To see a recent stock quote for a company, type &quot;quote&quot; followed
by the company&apos;s stock ticker symbol, and press Enter.</p>
by the company&apos;s stock ticker symbol, and press
<kbd class="mac">Return</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Enter</kbd>.</p>
<p>If you don&apos;t know a company&apos;s stock ticker symbol, type the
company&apos;s name. The quote page will list all companies with similar
@ -670,9 +679,13 @@ search, and save web pages.</p>
<li>Use the backspace key to undo the last character typed.</li>
<li>To cancel a find, change focus or scroll, press Escape, or wait for the
timeout.</li>
<li>Press Ctrl+G (Cmd+G on Mac OS) or F3 to to find the same search text
again. Press Ctrl+Shift+G (Cmd+Shift+G on Mac OS) or Shift+F3 to find
previous occurence of the search text.</li>
<li>Press
<kbd class="mac">Cmd</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>G</kbd> or
<kbd>F3</kbd> to find the same search text again. Press
<kbd class="mac">Cmd</kbd><kbd
class="noMac">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>G</kbd> or
<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>F3</kbd> to find previous occurence of the search
text.</li>
</ol>
<p>Type Ahead Find works with any window, such as this help file (try it!).</p>
@ -699,8 +712,8 @@ search, and save web pages.</p>
the Search Results-Bookmarks window.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: To quickly open the Bookmark Manager, press Ctrl+B
(Cmd+B on Mac OS).</p>
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: To quickly open the Bookmark Manager, press
<kbd class="mac">Cmd</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>B</kbd>.</p>
<p>To search the History list:</p>
@ -742,7 +755,8 @@ search, and save web pages.</p>
<p><strong>Tips</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>To open the History list quickly, press Ctrl+H.</li>
<li>To open the History list quickly, press <kbd class="mac">Cmd</kbd><kbd
class="noMac">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>H</kbd>.</li>
<li>If the list is hard to read, try expanding the Search Results
window.</li>
</ul>
@ -776,8 +790,9 @@ search, and save web pages.</p>
<ol>
<li>Position the pointer over the link or image.</li>
<li>Right-click the link or image to display a pop-up menu. (On Mac OS, press
Ctrl and click the mouse button.)</li>
<li>Right-click<span class="mac"> or, if you have a one-button mouse,
<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-click,</span> the link or image to display a pop-up
menu.</li>
<li>Choose Copy Link Location or Copy Image Location. If an image is also a
link, you are offered both options.</li>
</ol>
@ -826,8 +841,8 @@ search, and save web pages.</p>
<ol>
<li>Position the mouse pointer over the image.</li>
<li>Right-click the image (on Mac OS, press Ctrl and click the mouse button)
to display a pop-up menu.</li>
<li>Right-click<span class="mac"> or, if you have a one-button mouse,
<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-click</span> the image to display a pop-up menu.</li>
<li>Choose Save Image As. You see the Save File dialog box.</li>
<li>Choose a folder in which to save this image.</li>
<li>Type a file name for the image and click Save.</li>
@ -839,8 +854,9 @@ search, and save web pages.</p>
<ol>
<li>Position the mouse pointer over the page&apos;s link.</li>
<li>Right-click the hyperlink on the page (on Mac OS, press Ctrl and click
the mouse button) to display a pop-up menu.</li>
<li>Right-click<span class="mac"> or, if you have a one-button mouse,
<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-click</span> the hyperlink on the page to display a pop-up
menu.</li>
<li>Choose Save Link Target As. You see the Save File dialog box.</li>
<li>Choose a folder in which to save this file.</li>
<li>Type a file name for the page and click Save.</li>
@ -879,19 +895,21 @@ search, and save web pages.</p>
determines placement of content on the printed page. Text is wrapped and
graphics are repositioned to accommodate paper size.</p>
<h3 class="noMac">Using Print Preview</h3>
<div class="noMac">
<p class="noMac">To have an early look at how a page will look before it is
<h3>Using Print Preview</h3>
<p>To have an early look at how a page will look before it is
printed, you can use Print Preview. Begin from the Navigator window:</p>
<ul class="noMac">
<ul>
<li>From Navigator, open the File menu and choose Print Preview.</li>
</ul>
<p class="noMac">In Print Preview, you can do the following with pages you want
<p>In Print Preview, you can do the following with pages you want
to print:</p>
<ul class="noMac">
<ul>
<li><strong>View a preview of each page</strong>: Click the Next
<img src="chrome://navigator/skin/btn1/next.gif" alt="next button"/>,
Previous <img src="chrome://navigator/skin/btn1/previous.gif"
@ -901,9 +919,9 @@ search, and save web pages.</p>
<img src="chrome://navigator/skin/btn1/last.gif" alt="last button"/> button
to move between pages.</li>
<li><strong>Change the scale (size) of pages</strong>: In the Scale field,
type in a percentage of the original size and Press Enter. For example,
type &quot;50&quot; and press Enter to
make each page half the size of the original page. Click the Up
type in a percentage of the original size and Press <kbd>Enter</kbd>. For
example, type &quot;50&quot; and press <kbd>Enter</kbd> to make each page
half the size of the original page. Click the Up
<img src="chrome://global/skin/arrow/arrow-up-sharp.gif" alt="up button"/>
or Down <img src="chrome://global/skin/arrow/arrow-dn-sharp.gif"
alt="down button"/> button to resize up or down by an increment of one,
@ -920,6 +938,8 @@ search, and save web pages.</p>
<li><strong>Go to Print</strong>: Click Print to print pages.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h3 id="using_page_setup">Using Page Setup</h3>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Some Page Setup functions are different or
@ -1015,8 +1035,8 @@ search, and save web pages.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: To see a preview of changes made to Page Setup, use
<a href="#print_preview">Print Preview</a>.</p>
<p class="noMac"><strong>Tip</strong>: To see a preview of changes made to Page
Setup, use <a href="#print_preview">Print Preview</a>.</p>
<p>[<a href="#copying_saving_and_printing_pages">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
@ -1276,24 +1296,25 @@ search, and save web pages.</p>
<p>The download dialog box has these options:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Open using</strong>: &brandShortName; opens the file using the
default program in your system settings.</li>
<li><strong>Choose</strong>: &brandShortName; allows you to open the file
using an application you choose.</li>
<li><strong>Save this file to disk</strong>: &brandShortName; allows you to
<li><strong>Open it with the default application (Application Name)</strong>:
&brandShortName; opens the file using the default program in your system
settings.
<p><strong>Note</strong>: You will only see this option if there is a
program associated with the filetype in your system settings.</p></li>
<li><strong>Open it with</strong>: &brandShortName; allows you to open the
file using an application you choose. Clicking Choose to select an
application you want the file to be opened with.</li>
<li><strong>Save it to disk</strong>: &brandShortName; allows you to
select a location to save the file.</li>
<li><strong>Always ask before opening this type of file</strong>: When this
is selected, &brandShortName; opens the download dialog box when
downloading a particular file type. You can reset these choices afterwards
in <a href="cs_nav_prefs_navigator.xhtml#helper_applications">preferences
for Helper Applications</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Advanced</strong>: &brandShortName; allows you to fine-tune how
files are handled. See &quot;<a href="#adding_a_new_helper_application">To
add a new helper application to the list</a>&quot; for details.</li>
downloading a particular file type.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: You can clear your saved options for &quot;Always ask
before opening this type of file&quot; in preference. For more information,
before opening this type of file&quot; in preferences. For more information,
see <a href="cs_nav_prefs_navigator.xhtml#helper_applications">Navigator
Preferences - Helper Applications</a>.</p>
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<li>Click New Type. You see the New type dialog box.</li>
<li>Type a description of the type of files the application works,with;
for instance, &quot;movies&quot; or &quot;sound files.&quot;</li>
<li>Type the file extension (suffix) used by this file type. If this
type of file uses more than one extension, type them all, separated
by spaces.</li>
<li>Type the MIME type. MIME types consist of two words separated by
a slash. For instance, a TIFF image file&apos;s MIME type is
&quot;image/tiff&quot;.<br/>
<strong>Note:</strong> When you download a file, &brandShortName;
will show you the MIME type on the download dialog box.</li>
<li>Type the file extension (suffix) used by this file type. If this
type of file uses more than one extension, type them all, separated
by spaces.</li>
<li>Click Choose, then select an application that handles files of this
type.</li>
<li>Click OK.</li>
</ol>
<p>To specify how Navigator should handle downloaded files:</p>
<p>To specify how Navigator should handle different file types:</p>
<ol>
<li>Select a file type from the list and click Edit.</li>
<li>Type in the MIME type you want this file to use.</li>
<li>Choose a &quot;Handled By&quot; option to have downloaded files
saved on your hard disk or opened in an application that you
specify. Click Choose to specify the application.</li>
<li>In the dialog box, type in the MIME type you want this file to
use.</li>
<li>Choose a between to have downloaded files
saved on your hard disk, opened with the default application in your
system settings or opened in an application that you specify. Click
Choose to specify the application.</li>
<li>Click OK.</li>
</ol>
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List to remove a canceled or finished download. This will not delete the
file from your hard disk.</li>
<li><strong>Launch File</strong>: Click this to open a selected file.</li>
<li><strong>Show in Explorer</strong>: Click this to show the location of a
selected file.<br/>
<strong>Note</strong>: Show in Explorer appears as Show in Browser on
Linux or Unix, and Show in Finder on Mac OS.</li>
<li><strong>Show in<span class="win"> Explorer</span><span class="unix">
Browser</span><span class="mac"> Finder</span></strong>: Click this to show
the location of a selected file.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#improving_speed_and_efficiency">Return to beginning of
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Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Advanced category, click Cache. (If no subcategories are
visible, double-click Advanced to expand the list.)</li>
<li>Enter a number in the Cache field to specify the size of the cache. 8000K
on Windows is sufficient (5000K on Unix). To clear the cache immediately,
click Clear Cache.</li>
<li>Enter a number in the Cache field to specify the size of the cache. 50 MB
is sufficient. To clear the cache immediately, click Clear Cache.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> A larger disk cache allows more pages to be
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</li>
<li><strong>No Proxy for</strong>: 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)</li>
(Example: <kbd>.yourcompany.com, .yourcompany.co.nz</kbd>)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Automatic proxy configuration URL</strong>: Choose this if