Introduction

MultiZilla's main panel has no control over preference settings. It is only a place holder for some information about when MultiZilla was first introduced. Note that we used this image as splash screen for a long time, but we removed it to reduce the file size of the download. However, you can still download it, if you want.

The Dialog Buttons

Help

Click on the Help button to open this page.

Save Changes

Click on the Save Changes button to persists the changes you made.

Cancel

Click on the Cancel button to undo the changes you made.

Appearance Preferences

The appearance preferences (or settings) panel gives you control over some of the MultiZilla specific features. More detailed information can be found below the image.

Tab Bar Position

This defines where the tab bar should appear. This the toolbar that shows the tabs. Valid positions are the top and bottom of the browser window. By default, the tab bar appears at the top of the window.

New / Close Tab Positions

These define whether the new tab and close tab buttons should be shown. By default, neither button is shown

Miscellaneous

Use MultiZilla Preference Manager

if this is checked then middle-clicking on the QuickPrefs button will show only the MultiZilla preferences tree in the prefs window.

Use MultiZilla XPInstall Confirmation Window

if this is checked, then the Seamonkey XPInstaller will be replace with that of MultiZilla, which provides much more information than the default.

Use Stacked Windows for MultiZilla Managers

if this is checked, then the Tab-, Session-, Permission- and User Agent managers will cause all child windows to be opened on the exact position of the parent window, but stacked windows cannot be moved. The content of new stacked windows will be displayed like a curtain i.e. from top to bottom, while normal windows will (try to) display everything at once.

Note: selecting stacked windows on OS/2 might result in a crash!

Use Classic Theme Cycling

This is a Windows 95/98/ME/2000 specific preference for people that are forced to use the classic Windows theme (it selects specific CSS rules in our stylesheets to make it look right).

Hide the sidebar tabs and show View button

if this is checked then the tabs in the sidebar (Bookmarks, History, etc) will be hidden and a button called 'View' will be shown at the top of the sidebar with a drop-down menu letting you access all the panels of the sidebar. This gives you more screen space for your sidebar.

Buttons Preferences

The button preferences (or settings) panel gives you control over a number of buttons on the Navigator toolbar, the Personal toolbar, the status bar and last but not least the MultiZilla toolbar. More detailed information can be found below the image.

Bookmarks Preferences

The bookmarks preferences (or settings) panel gives you control over...

Bookmark Menu Behavior
Open new tabs for bookmarks in background – if this option is checked then when bookmarks are opened in tabs, they will be opened in the background, while the current tab retains focus.

Enable middle-click in a bookmark menu (opens a new tab) – if this is checked then middle-clicking a bookmark in the bookmarks menu, button and sidebar will open that bookmark in a new tab.

Close bookmark menu after mouse middle click – if this is checked then the bookmark menu will close automatically after you middle-click on an item. If this is unchecked then it will remain open for you to select further bookmarks. You can close the menu by clicking outside it.

When Bookmark Folders are opened, add
MultiZilla can add additional menu items to bookmark folders. This pref panel lets you choose which of these get added. The items are described below.

Open folder in tabs – open each of the items in this folder in new tabs
Open folder in windows – open each of the items in this folder in new windows Open folder in a window – open each of the items in this folder in tabs in a new window Use folder as home page – select this folder as your home page so that each item in it will be opened when you select your homepage

Disable the extra menu items for the Personal Toolbar – if this is checked then the items above will not appear in folders on the Personal Toolbar.

When Groupmark folders are opened, add
The items here add items to groupmark folders as above.

Confirmations Preferences

The confirmations preferences (or settings) panel gives you control over...

Open Tabs

Checking the items in this section will ask you to confirm the actions carried out by the optional extra items in the bookmarks menu for bookmark folders and groupmarks.

Close Tabs

These options will ask you for confirmation before closing all open tabs and all open tabs except the current one (both items are available from the tab context menu).

Reopen tabs

This asks for confirmation before reopening all tabs that have been closed this session.

Tab Manager

Ask confirmation when the Close Button is used

 

Ask confirmation when the ESC key is pressed

 

Ask confirmation when keyboard shortcut 'Ctrl+W' is used

tick this checkbox when you want to be asked for confirmation when keyboard shortcut Accel+W is used.

Ask confirmation when Window X (red LED for MacOS) is used

 

Tab Session Manager

See Tab Manager above

Permission Manager

See Tab Manager above

User Agent Manager

See Tab Manager above

Close Window / Quit

When you close the browser, you can have confirmations when you close the window, select the File → Exit menu item, press Accel+Q, and the X button (red LED for Macs). You can also have confirmations when a webpage tries to close a window through Javascript and can have confirmations skipped when only a single tab is open.

Full Screen Preferences

The Full Screen preferences (or settings) panel gives you control over...

Full Screen Mode Configuration
From here, you can control how full-screen mode works.

Enabled for first browser window only – Toolbars are normally hidden in Full Screen mode, so this preference makes it possible to display the toolbars for the first full screen browser window only, or all Full Screen windows.
Disabled for kiosk-style browser windows – The toolbars in kiosk-style windows are normally hidden by default (chromeless) and this preference makes it possible to skip kiosk-styled windows. You might want the toolbars, but you might not want them in kiosk windows.
Use F11 to enable Chrome for kiosk-style browser windows – Using F11 will try to enable chrome i.e. change kiosk-styled windows into 'normal' browser windows so that you can open/close tabs etc.

The boxes labelled Mozilla toolbars and Third party toolbars contain the available toolbars. Those toolbars with a check next to them will be visible in full-screen mode.

Link Panel Preferences

The Link Panel preferences (or settings) panel fives you control over...

Duplicated Link Protection
These options determine what happens when you try to open (in a new tab) a link that already exists in an existing tab. You can either have it open the duplication document, or switch directly to that document.

New Tabs
This selects what actions should open in a new tab. Currently available options are middle-clicking on a link, a link whose target is set to _blank, a form whose target is set to _blank and links from external programs.

Middle mouse clicks
These define what happens when you click a link with your middle mouse button. The link can be opened in a new tab or a new window.

Miscellaneous Preferences

The Miscellaneous preferences (or settings) panel gives you control over...

International Domain Names
Enable International Domain Name support in Mozilla – if this is checked then international characters will be allowed in domain names

Display URLs with International Domain Name in Punycode – displays URL that have non-ASCII characters in them in punycode

Display warning for new and suspicious looking domain names – note: for this to work, you must have the master password enabled (although you can leave this blank). Since some IDN characters can look almost exactly the same as ASCII ones, they can be used for phishing attacks. Checking this box allows MultiZilla to create a hash for each secure site (https) that you visit, so if a site is uses a malicious URL to take you to a phishing site, you can be notified at a glance.

Automatic Update Notifications
Enable automatic update checks – should MultiZilla automatically check for updates to itself? You can check daily, weekly or monthly. You can also perform a manual check from here.

New Windows Preferences

The New Windows preferences (or settings) panel gives you control over...

New Window Redirector
Enable new window redirector for window.open() – intercepts requests to open new window from Javascript and allows you choose what to do with them. By default, these requests can be allowed to open, redirected to a new tab, blocked completely or you can be asked each time what to do.

Override new window features specified by websites – a website may open a new window and specify what toolbars, menubars etc are visible. If you check this box, you can override this and always show the items that are ticked in the specify window features drop-down box.

Synchronise 'dom.disable_window_open_feature' preferences – MultiZilla uses its own preferences for window features, but this preference makes it possible to change the default prefs of Mozilla as well.

Redirect javascript:window.open() to new tabs – Links that use href="javascript:window.open()" instead of target="_blank" are sort of special for Mozilla so we need this preference. You might want to open a new tab for target="_blank" but a new window for href="javascript:window.open()" or vice versa.

Tab Popup Indicator
Display popup icon on the tab when a new window is blocked – if this is checked then an icon will be displayed on the tab when a popup window is blocked. If this is checked, you can have the icon removed automatically after a certain number of milliseconds. If this is set to 0, then the icon will not not be removed.

Privacy Preferences

The Privacy preferences (or settings) panel gives you contrl over...

Privacy Options
MultiZilla can automatically delete various privacy items when the browser is closed. Select the items that you want to have removed when the browser closes in this section.

Confirmations
You can have MultiZilla ask you before deleting these items with this option.

Tab Bar Behavior Preferences

Tab Bar Behavior preferences (or settings) panel gives you control over...

Tab Bar
Last tab action – this drop-down box defines what happens when you close the last open tab. You can have a blank page loaded, you can have a blank page loaded and the tab bar hidden or you can have the browser closed down.

Hide tab bar for single tab – if this is checked then the tab bar will be hidden when only a single tab is open.

New Tab and Focus Order
New tabs will open at – this defines where a new tab will appear when opened. Valid options are the start of the tab bar, the end of the tab bar or to the left and right of the currently open tab.

Close tab will switch focus to the: – this defines what gets focus when you close an active tab. Currently you can have focus switched to the tab at the left or the right of the current tab. In future you will also be able to have it switched to the previously selected tab or the last tab to be opened.

Middle-Mouse Clicks
A middle mouse click on the tab bar defaults to: – this option defines what happens when you click the middle mouse button in the tab bar. You can either open a new tab or have the last opened tab closed. You can use the Shift key to perform the other action to what is selected in this drop-down box.

Mouse double clicks
Open a new tab for mouse double-clicks on the tab bar – if this is checked, then double-clicking on the tab bar opens a new tab.

Tab Behavior Preferences

The Tab Behavior preferences (or settings) panel gives you control over...

New tabs should be for/from
These checkboxes define the actions that cause links to be opened in a new tab. If the item is checked, then it will be opened in a new tab, rather than the default behaviour.

New tab failure handling
Newly opened tabs that failed to load should: – this defines what happens when you open a link in a new tab and it fails to load. You can have the new tab automatically closed, left open or you can be asked what to do with it.

Preferred location
This lets you set the page that will open when you press Ctrl+Shift+T (the 'preferred location'). You can enter a full URL or use the buttons to have this set to the home page, the current page, or a file on your computer.

Miscellaneous
Enable automatic tab selection after X milliseconds – if this is checked then if you hover your mouse over a tab, that tab will be selected after X milliseconds (where X is defined in the textbox).

Enable middle mouse clicks on tabs to close the tab – if this is checked then clicking on a tab with the middle mouse button will close it.

Enable double mouse clicks on tabs to close the tab – if this is checked then double-clicking on a tab will close it.

Use new (empty) tabs before opening a new tab – if this is checked then if you have a blank tab open and ask for a link to be opened in a new tab, it will use the existing blank tab rather than opening a new one.

Open new tabs in the background (keep current tab selected) – if this is checked then new tabs will be opened in the background while the currently selected tab retains focus.

Load diverted windows in the background (keep current tab selected) – "diverted windows" are windows that open as tabs from other applications either in the current tab, or a new tab in the current window.

Enable Ctrl+mouse clicks on tabs (copies URL to clipboard) – if this is checked then holding the Ctrl key and left-clicking on a tab copies the URL (location) of that tab to the clipboard for pasting into other applications.

Use Cmd-left/right arrows for back/forward (Mac only) – this is available on Macs only. If it is checked then pressing Cmd+left/right arrows will take you back/forward in the history instead of going to the previous/next tab.

Tab Sessions Preferences

The Tab Sessions preferences (or settings) panel gives you control over...

Tab usage
This set of options defines what happens when you open a groupmark, bookmark folder or tab session. You can have all the items open in new tabs, in existing tabs, or you can be asked each time. You can also have all tabs not in the set just opened closed automatically by checking the box marked close the remaining tabs.

Tab sessions
MultiZilla can save the set of open tabs when you close the browser. Use the drop-down box marked Save tab sessions on exit to define how to do this: you can either overwrite the existing session, create a new session each time you close the browser or be asked each time.

Restore tab sessions on startup defines how/if the saved session should be restored when the browser is restarted. You can restore the tabs in the first window only, you can restore all the windows or you can choose to be asked each time. You can also choose to have the session manager opened on startup for maximum flexibility.

Skip 'Navigator Startup' settings from the Navigator preference panel (only available if restoring session on startup) – if this is checked then preference selected in 'Navigator Startup' in the Navigator preference panel will be overridden.

Skip confirmation for restoring a 'Single Window Tab Session' (only available if restoring session on startup) – if this is checked then MultiZilla will skip the confirmation dialog when only one window is open, but your confirmation will be asked for when more windows are opened.

Skip saving for tab sessions with only one tab (only available if saving sessions on shutdown) – if this is checked then sessions with only a single tab in a single window are not saved.

Save and restore tab history – If this is checked then the last X items in the browser history (ie the pages visited, as used in the Back/Forward buttons) are saved. X is defined in the Maximum items to keep box.

Tab Styling Preferences

The Tab Styling preferences (or settings) panel gives you control over...

Tab Icons
Show load indicators on tabs – if this is checked than an LED will be put on the tab to indicate the load status of the current page (red=loading, yellow=pending, green=ready)

Favicon on tab, site icon on tab – if these are checked then a 'favicon' will be displayed on the tab (a site icon is a favicon that is directly loaded by the page through an HTML <link> tag).

Close X icon on tab if this is checked then when you hover the mouse over a tab, an X icon will appear that lets you close the tab.

Tab Label
This lets you choose what label should be used for a tab. Current choices are the page title and the page URL. For long labels you can also choose how they should be cropped. You can crop them from the start, from the end or in the middle. You can also choose the maximum and minimum sizes for labels before cropping occurs.

Tab label colours – a future update of MultiZilla will let you set background and foreground colours for tabs.

Web Content Preferences

The Web Content preferences (or settings) panel gives you control over...

Auto Complete

Force auto-complete to remember your login/password – Some sites like on-line banks use autocomplete="off" to disable Mozilla's password prompts so this preference will change "off" into "on".

Remove 'onsubmit' from forms (needed for Yahoo) – You need to remove the onsubmit from forms on sites like Yahoo! and that's what this preference will do, it removes the onsubmit.

Auto Scroll

Enable auto-scroll (use middle mouse click to initiate) – if this is checked then clicking the middle mouse button on the page enables auto scrolling, which lets you scroll up and down the document by just moving the mouse up and down and not using the scrollbars or the mouse scroll-wheel.

Automatic page refresh

Enable automatic page refresh specified by META/HTTP refresh – if this is checked then if a page specifies an automatic refresh or redirect (either with an HTML <meta> tag or through an HTTP header) it will be allowed. If this is checked then you can fine-tune this with the drop-down box. You can select that automatic refreshing is allowed, that it is blocked or you can choose to be asked each time. You can also choose to have an automatic page refresh through a <meta> tag converted to MultiZilla's own page reload function (available by right-clicking a tab selecting Reload tab(s).

Context menu protection

This drop-down detects when a website tries to change or block your right-click (context) menu for a page. You can choose to allow the change/block, to always override the change or to ask you each time. If you choose to have MultiZilla ask you each time, you will need to then dismiss the menu and right-click again to have your selected action occur.

Web Feed Preferences

The Web Feeds preferences (or settings) panel gives you control over MultiZilla's Feed Reader. The Feed Reader is a sidebar panel. More information about the Feed Reader itself can be found in the corresponding documentation. This documentation is about the preferences (or settings) which lets you customise MultiZilla's Feed Reader.

 

Info popups

Show info popups

– if this is checked then hovering over a feed item in the lower pane will show a popup containing information about that popup. The size of this popup can be specified using the spin control next to it, up to a maximum of 500 characters.

Show URL in Info Popups

– if this is checked then the URL of the feed item will be shown in the info popup.

Automatic refresh

Refresh after X minute(s)

– MultiZilla will automatically refresh each subscribed feed after X minutes to see if there have been any new items added to it.

Refresh Feeds

– clicking this button manually refreshes the feeds immediately.

Last refresh

– this shows you the last time that the feeds were refreshed.

History

Last active feed

– this shows you which the last feed that you viewed was.

Miscellaneous

Open sidebar panel when subscribing to feeds

– if this is checked then when you subscribe to a new feed, the Web Feeds sidebar will automatically open so that you can see the items in the feed immediately.

GoogleBox Preferences

The GoogleBox preferences (or settings) panel is optional and will only be available if the GoogleBox is installed and enabled. Note that this panel can also be opened from the GoogleBox Settings in the GoogleBox main menu.

 

Enable integrated GoogleBox

If this is checked then GoogleBox will appear in the MultiZilla toolbar

Search Engine Settings

Default search engine

use whatever local Google site you want here, eg http://www.google.com, http://www.google.co.uk etc.

Search engine flags

Do a normal search on Google and note the attributes in the URI. This is used to select the in- output encoding.

Search entrybox width

the width (in pixels) of the box where you can enter your search query.

Keep last used search engine

The GoogleBox can use different Google search categories like images, groups or news and this pref makes it possible to keep the last search category i.e. do searches in a specific category from the entry field.

Start search queries automatically from menu list

if this is checked and you select a query from the drop-down box of previous queries then that query will be automatically searched.

Select Number of search items

The number of items that will be displayed/kept in the menulist.

Open new tab for query results (use Ctrl key when disabled)

if this is selected then when you enter a query and press enter, a ne tab is automatically opened for the search results. If this is unchecked then if you hold the Ctrl key when pressing enter, the new tab will be opened.

Prevent duplicated search results in different tabs

if this is checked then if you search on the same query more than once it will open the existing tab for that query rather than opening a new tab.

Hide MultiZilla toolbar buttons when GoogleBox activated

if this is checked then when GoogleBox is activated the MultiZilla toolbar buttons will be hidden.

Update Notifications

Enable automatic update checks

tick this checkbox if the GoogleBox should check for updates automatically.