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<p>Searching for web pages on a particular topic is as easy as typing a few
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words into &brandShortName;'s Search Bar.<br/>
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whole web; others, like Amazon.com, only search specific sites.</p>
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Words Selected in a Web Page</h3>
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<li>Select (highlight) any words in a web page.</li>
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current page contains frames, you may need to click within a frame before
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Find in This Page...</span> to open the Find Toolbar at the bottom of
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<li>Type the text you want to find. The search automatically begins as soon as
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<li><strong>Highlight</strong>: highlight occurrences of your search string
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<li><strong>Previous</strong>: find text that is above the current cursor
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<span class="menuPath">Edit > Find Again</span>.</p>
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<p>In Print Preview, you can do the following with pages you want to print:</p>
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<li><strong>View a preview of each page</strong>: Click the Next <img alt=""
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<li><strong>View a preview of each page</strong>: Click the
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button to move between pages.</li>
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<li><strong>Change the scale (size) of pages</strong>: In the <em>Scale</em>
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drop-down menu, choose "50%" to make each page half the size of
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of the paper, choose "Shrink to Fit". You can also type in your
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to position the page sideways with the longer side facing up.</li>
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<li><strong>Go to Page Setup</strong>: Click <em>Page Setup</em> to further
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customize pages you want to print.</li>
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<li><strong>Orientation</strong>:
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normally, with the shorter side facing up.</li>
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sideways, with the longer side facing up.</li>
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<p>You can specify how &brandShortName; handles files it can't display in the
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<em>Download Actions</em> dialog. To open this dialog, select &pref.menuPath;,
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Actions...</em> button. You can change the action for a file type or remove it.
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<a href="prefs.xhtml#download_actions">Download &pref.pluralCaps;</a>.</p>
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open the <em>Content</em> panel, and click the <em>Manage...</em> button in
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the <em>File Types</em> section. You can change the action for a file type or
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<p>When you click on a file and &brandShortName; doesn't know how to handle it,
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an <em>Opening</em> dialog box is displayed, offering these choices:</p>
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default program in your system settings. You can also choose a different
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program by selecting <em>Other...</em> in the drop-down list.</li>
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<li><strong>Save to Disk</strong>: &brandShortName; allows you to select a
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location to save the file. If you have selected <em>Save all files to this
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the file will automatically be saved to the default folder.</li>
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location to save the file. If you have selected <em>Save all files to (this
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selected action the next time you download a file of this type.</li>
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your default browser.</p>
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<p>To make &brandShortName; your default web browser, select &pref.menuPath;
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and click the <em>Check Now</em> button in the <em>General</em> panel.</p>
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and click the <em>Check Now</em> button in the <em>Main</em> panel.</p>
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<h3 id="changing_cache_settings">Changing Cache Settings</h3>
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<p>&brandShortName; stores copies of frequently accessed pages in the cache.
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network each time you view the web page.</p>
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<p>To set the size of the cache or to clear it:</p>
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<li>Select &pref.menuPath;.</li>
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<li>Open the <em>Advanced</em> panel and click the <em>Network</em> tab.</li>
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<li>Enter a number in the <em>Use up to</em> field to specify the size of the
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cache. 50MB to 70MB is a good size. To clear the cache immediately, click
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the <em>Clear Cache Now</em> button at the bottom of the <em>Cache</em>
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cache. The default size is 50MB.</li>
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<p><strong>Important</strong>: A larger cache allows more data to be quickly
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&brandShortName;'s <em>Navigation Toolbar</em>. &brandShortName; then loads
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<div class="contentsBox"><em>02 June 2006</em></div>
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<div class="contentsBox"><em>12 September 2006</em></div>
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<p>Copyright © 2003-2006 Contributors to the Mozilla Help Viewer Project.</p>