A completely new preference manager was written for MultiZilla version 1.7, which is nice of
course, but you might run into trouble when you keep your old profile after the update from a previous
version. You basically have two options to solve this problem. The first one, the easiest
one, is to ditch your profile and to use a new profile. However, you will lose all your settings so
you might want to try the second option. Open the following file with your favorite text editor:
browser directory/chrome/overlayinfo/communicator/content/overlays.rdf
and replace the following URL:
chrome://communicator/content/pref/preftree.xul
with this one:
chrome://multiviews/content/preferences/multizillaPrefOverlay.xul
That should work, but feel free to join us on the newsgroup, just in case you can't get it
working without further assistance.
See also: bug 8797
CTRL+N opens a new window in Mozilla (or should) but certain versions of MultiZilla changed
this behavior and open a new tab, instead of a new window. This behavior can be changed on
MultiZilla's Tabs
pref panel. Simply untick the checkbox in front of
'Ctrl+N' and it will open a new window.
Note: people that like to open a new tab, instead of a new window, should
tick the checkbox.
The underlying pref is: user_pref("multizilla.newtabfor.ctrl-n", [true/false]);
Related info: "How can I open the Preference
Window in MultiZilla?"
You can startup Mozilla with a blank page, home page or the last visited page. The pref
settings for this can be found on Mozilla's Navigator pref panel. I guess we all know that
by now but...
MultiZilla adds a new and very powerful feature called
Tab Sessions.
One of the options of this feature enables you to restore one or all previously open windows
and tabs on startup.
Tab Sessions can be restored automatically, without your interaction, or it let you decide
at startup. The latter will open a dialog window or MultiZilla's Tab Session Manager. All
pref settings for this feature can be found on MultiZilla's Advanced pref panel.
Note: please keep in mind that you first need to setup and use 'Save
Tab Sessions', before you can use MultiZilla's 'Restore Tab Session' successfully .
Related info: "How can I open the Preference
Window in MultiZilla?"
No. MultiZilla is not a skin or a theme, but we do have a theme
OSXilla available for download and installation for MultiZilla.
So what is MultiZilla you ask. Well, it is a browser add-on or a so called browser extention.
MultiZilla adds literally dozens of new features, menu items and preferences for all sorts
of things. You can read more about all new features in the
Features Section of this website.
The MultiZilla project is one the oldest projects on mozdev.org but still very active. MultiZilla
also has its own optionally
installable GoogleBox widget that emulates the official
Google Toolbar
for Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Note: The GoogleBox widget was developed before the Googlebar
project was even launched on mozdev.org simply because I wasn't aware of its planned
introduction.
Notice: We are very much aware of that other shamelessly copied project
but MultiZilla is still the first and only original XUL TabUI for Mozilla based browsers.
Yes you can, by adding the following lines to:
/chrome/userChrome.css in your profile directory.
-
- #qpmenu-tbbutton {
- list-style-image: url("chrome://multiviews/content/images/toolbar/preferences.png") !important;
- -moz-image-region: rect(0px, 16px, 16px, 0px) !important;
- }
-
Related info: "How do I locate my profile
directory"
MultiZilla offers you three ways to open the Preference Window.
The first two are MultiZilla specific and the last one is Mozilla's own implementation.
-
- Middle-click on a QPrefs button (this button can be displayed on the Navigator,
Personal and MultiZilla Toolbar).
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- Left click on the QPrefs button and select menu item 'Preference Window'.
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- Menu > Edit > Preferences and select menu item 'Preference Window'.
-
Note: Only the first two options select the MultiZilla pref panel at start.
You will have to select other pref panels manually, like you have to when using the last
option.
You can re-enable MultiZilla by entering the following chrome URI into your location bar:
- chrome://multiviews/content/reEnableMultiZilla.xul
Tip: Select the link and drag it to a bookmark menu or to your Personal Toolbar.
No, not really. However, a web designer can use:
target="_blank" or javascript:window.open(); to open a new window
in Mozilla and MultiZilla can redirect this to a new tab. Check MultiZilla's
Tabs and
Popup
pref panels. The settings in the Permission Manager will override this behavior!
The reason why this wasn't implemented in Mozilla can be read in
Mozilla bug 105409.
The underlying prefs are:
For target attributes: user_pref("multizilla.newtabfor.windowopen", true);
For javascript: links: user_pref("multizilla.window-open.javascript-in-tab", true);
No, not yet, but we're working on it. Keep an eye on bug
2228. Don't hesitate
to get in touch with us if you can help us. We also need new images for MultiZilla's
Toolbar and Pref panels.
Yes, both Mozilla and Netscape adapted MultiZilla, but not all of it.
Mozilla Firefox goes even further by adding more features priorly
introduced by MultiZilla. However, Mozilla's tabbrowser widget is a plain re-write, done by
David Hyatt, a former Netscape Engineer, of some of HJ's work.
Install MultiZilla version 1.5.0.0 for Netscape v7.1 from the
installation page or
install the appropriate XPI
for Netscape v7.0. We discontinued support of Netscape v6.x simply because we lost the XPI
for it :(
You may have UA spoofing enabled. From the MultiZilla Quick
Prefs Menu, select Browser Spoofing->Restore Original User Agent.
This should solve the problem.
There are several ways to open new tabs in MultiZilla. One of the options you have is
keyboard shortcut Ctrl+T but you can also use one of the many menu options.
Another option you have is to enable Prefs->MultiZilla->Tab Bar->New
Tab and Close Tab Buttons->Enable New Tab Button to open new tabs.
The underlying pref is: user_pref("multizilla.tabbar.newbutton", true);
Tip: you can enable Prefs->MultiZilla->
Links->Open new Tab for->Ctrl-N to open new tabs instead of new windows
with keyboard shortcut Ctrl+N.
The underlying pref is: user_pref("multizilla.newtabfor.ctrl-n", true);
You can use keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T or the menu item New
Tab->Preferred Page on the MultiZilla toolbar to open a new tab with a preferred location.
Tip: You can specify a preferred location on the MultiZilla
Tabs Panel
pref panel.
The underlying pref is: user_pref("multizilla.preferred.location", "http://www.somesite.loc");
Go to Prefs->MultiZilla->Tabbar Behavior->Tab Bar->Hide Tab Bar for single tab.
The underlying pref is: user_pref("browser.tabs.autoHide", true);
Go to the menu View->Show/Hide->MultiZilla Toolbar.There is
also a shortcut key which is F12 (or F11 in earlier
MultiZilla versions).
Use the option Prefs->Navigator->Display on->Navigator
Startup->blank page
Just right-click on a tab, or click on the Tab Menu button on the MultiZilla toolbar to activate
this menu.
Yes you can, go to Prefs->MultiZilla->Tab Styling->Tab Icons->Show
load indicators on tabs and clear the checkbox.
Ensure that Prefs->MultiZilla->Links->New Tabs->
Middle click is selected.
The underlying pref is: user_pref("multizilla.mouse-middle-click.newtab", true);
Ensure that the required items in Prefs->MultiZilla->Tab Behavior->New Tabs should
be opened for/from->Bookmark are selected
The underlying pref is: user_pref("multizilla.newtabfor.bookmarks", true);
Ensure that Prefs->MultiZilla->Tab Behavior->New Tabs should be opened
for/from->General->Personal Toolbar is selected
The underlying pref is: user_pref("multizilla.newtabfor.personal-toolbar", true);
Go to Prefs->MultiZilla->Tab Styling->Tab Label->Maximum Tab
width and set it to your desired length.
The underlying pref is: user_pref("multizilla.tabs.tabwidth", xxx);
Yes you can, select Prefs->MultiZilla->Tab Styling->Tab Label->User page
title as Tab Label
The underlying pref is:
Just click on the current page and use one of these shortcuts:
- Ctrl+Tab - to activate the next tab
- Ctrl+Shift+Tab - to activate the previous tab
- Ctrl+Right Arrow - to activate the next tab
- Ctrl+Left Arrow - to activate the previous tab
- Ctrl+Page Up - to activate the previous tab
- Ctrl+Page Down - to activate the next tab
- Ctrl+Shift+Home - to activate the first tab
- Ctrl+Shift+End - to activate the last tab
You can also use Go
from the main or tab menu.
Just click on the current page and use one of these shortcuts:
- Ctrl+Shift+pageUp - activates tabs on the top of the browser window.
- Ctrl+Shift+pageDown - activates tabs on the bottom of the browser window.
You can also use the Switch button on the MultiZilla Toolbar.
Use: Menu->Help->About MultiZilla
Use: Menu->Help->About [Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Firefox]
Example: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060404 MultiZilla/1.8.1.1e SeaMonkey/1.0.1
You must install MultiZilla as root. If you need help, then follow these steps:
- Open an xterm
- su root
- Run mozilla from xterm
- Go to MultiZilla installation page
- Click install
- Exit Mozilla after a successfull completion
- Exit xterm
- Load Mozilla normally
We sure could use your help. Feel free to contact HJ
for additional information. HJ is the project owner and main developer.
Note: Rajnish Bhaskar (Raj for insiders/our webmaster) is also looking
for help. Feel free to contact Raj
if you're willing to help him with the website.
Please visit our bug page.
You will find instructions there for reporting bugs, including a link to the
bug helper page.
You can donate to MultiZilla via PayPal on this page.
All donations are most appreciated, but if you can't donate money, how about donating some time to the
project, whether in helping update the website, or tracking down and filing bugs.
MultiZilla doesn't provide an automatic un-installation script, but the following steps will solve
this problem:
The following steps cover how to remove MultiZilla if you installed it for multi-user access
(into the Mozilla/SeaMonkey program directory). If you installed it for single-user access (into
your profile), then follow the same steps but use <profile>chrome/
where it
says chrome/
- Close Mozilla (including QuickLaunch on Windows)
- Backup your <profile>/chrome, <program>/chrome/ and <program>/components/ directories (in case something goes wrong)
- From the chrome/ directory, remove multiviews.jar
- From the chrome/ directory, remove chrome.rdf
- From the chrome/ directory, remove overlays.rdf
- From the <program>/components/ directory, remove mzContentBlocker.js and mzUpdateNotifier.js
- From the <program>/chrome/ directory, remove the following lines from installed-chrome.txt:
content,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/multiviews.jar!/content/multiviews/
skin,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/multiviews.jar!/skin/modern/multiviews/
skin,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/multiviews.jar!/skin/classic/multiviews/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/multiviews.jar!/locale/en-US/multiviews/
Note: this file is always found in <program>/chrome (never in <profile>/chrome)
Now restart Mozilla/SeaMonkey to recreate chrome.rdf, overlays.rdf and the XUL cache, but please
note that you might have to start your browser twice to recreate a new XUL cache without
MultiZilla in it, or your browser windows might look broken.
Please install a stable release in case you are having difficulty with a MultiZilla nightly and
tell us about the problem/bug which enables
us to help you or fix the bug for you!
Related info: "How do I locate my profile
directory"
The profile locations for the most common Operating Systems are listed below:
-
- Windows XP and 2000: %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\[Profile Name]\[random string].slt\
-
- Windows 95/98: C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\[Profile Name]\[random string].slt\
-
- OS/2: \MozillaHome\Mozilla\profiles\SIG\[random string].slt
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- Mac OS 9: Documents:Mozilla:[User Profile]:[random string].slt:
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- Mac OS X: ~/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/[Profile Name]/[random string].slt/
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- Linux: ~/.mozilla/[Profile Name]/[random string].slt/
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- Note that the profile may have been installed in a different place than these defaults. If you cannot find it (after ensuring that you are viewing hidden files) then contact your system administrator.
In that case you might want to get in touch with us, or other MultiZilla users on the
newsgroup
or mailing list.
Note: we kindly ask you to add a clear, step by step description of the
problem you are experiencing, and to include your
include the original (not a modified) HTTP User Agent.