Button List
This file contains a list of every button (checkbox, button, link, menulist, etc.), available in the default Prefbar installation, along with information on using each. All items are listed in the order, in which they appear, when first installed.
Nav buttons: | Home |
Pref checks: | Javascript (Tab) | Images (Tab) | Plugins (Tab) | Fonts | Colors | System Colors | Images | Animation | JavaScript | Java | Popups | Proxies | Cookies | Cookie Warning | Flash |
Dev checks: | Pipelining | Cache | Send Referrer |
Dev buttons | Clear Cache | Clear History | Clear Location Bar | Clear Cookies | Clear All | Resize |
Command buttons: | New Tab | Restore Tab | Kill Flash | Font - | Font + | Customize | Hide Toolbar |
Menulists: | User Agent | Proxy Menulist | Proxy Serverlist | Language |
Help Links: | Help | What's New |
Web Links: | PrefBar homepage | Mozilla.org | MozillaZine.org |
Home
Although this button doesn't look as nice as the real home button (it doesn't have the icon, at least not yet) clicking it will bring you to your homepage just as fast.
Separator
A separator, designed to go to the right of the home button. You can (of course) move this to where ever place on the toolbar you want.
Javascript (Tab)
This toggles javascript for the selected tab.
Images (Tab)
This toggles images for the selected tab.
Plugins (Tab)
This toggles plugins for the selected tab.
Fonts
This toggles the "Allow documents to use other fonts" preferences. When you encounter a webpage with really horrible font settings, turn this off to have the page rendered with normal fonts instead.
Colors
Perhaps the most useful checkbox of them all, this turns off author specified colors, rendering everything with your defaults instead. Just because some moron thinks that yellow text on a red background looks good doesn't mean you should have to read it like that. From now on, you don't.
System Colors
Toggles between the colors chosen in the prefs dialog and your system colors. Only useful when the Colors pref is turned off.
Images
This switches the image loading pref from "Accept all images" when enabled, to "Don't load any images" when disabled. You have to either set this before loading a page or reload the page after changing the pref. (I have no idea why this one doesn't work automatically like the fonts and colors prefs; it's probably a bug, but I don't know the number.)
Animation
This switches controls whether animated images are allowed. It does not affect other kinds of animation such as Javascript or Flash. You have to either set this before loading a page or reload the page after changing the pref.
JavaScript
Enables or disables JavaScript. This can be very useful at times. Note that--like all preferences--this is global, so turning it off in one browser window or tab will disable JavaScript for the entire product.
Java
Enables or disables Java. Personally, I like to leave java off most of the time, and only turn it on when I encounter a java applet that I really need. That way I don't have to deal with java based advertisements, or wait for java to load before viewing a page containing one.
Note: Starting with Firefox 23 it is possible to change the behaviour of plugin toggles via the extensions.prefbar.plugintoggle.mode preference.
Flash
This is a checkbox to completely deactivate flash if it isn't needed.
Note: Starting with Firefox 23 it is possible to change the behaviour of plugin toggles via the extensions.prefbar.plugintoggle.mode preference.
Popups
Toggles the "Open unrequested windows" pref. I have heard that there are still some popups that can get through this, but I don't know any details.
Proxies
This switches the proxy settings between "No Proxies" (disabled) and the last setting, you had set, before unchecking the box (enabled).
Proxy Menulist
This allows you to chose which type of proxy you currently need. You need to have the info setup in the preferences dialog for whatever type(s) of proxies you plan to use.
Cookies
This toggles the cookie preferences from "Enable all cookies" (enabled) to "Disable cookies" (disabled).
Cookie Warning
When turned on, mozilla will put up a warning dialog before any site it allowed to store a cookie or modify a cookie.
Pipelining
Enables or disables http pipelining. This is supposed to speed up page loads over dialup, but not all servers support it.
Cache
This toggles the browser cache on and off.
Send Referrer
When disabled, mozilla will not send referrer url information with page requests.
Separator
Another separator.
Clear Cache
This clears mozilla's browser cache.
Clear History
Clears mozilla's global browser history.
Clear Location Bar
Clears the history of urls you typed into the location bar.
This does not longer work with Firefox 3.0 and above, as those versions use your bookmarks and your regular history to create the dropdown menu. Use "ClearHistory" as an replacement.
Clear Cookies
Clears all Cookies.
Clear All
Clears the History, the Location Bar, Disk Cache, and Memory Cache.
Separator
Another separator.
Resize
Resizes the browser window to the resolution you select in the menulist.
Separator
Another separator.
New Tab
Opens a new browser tab. I don't really know how useful this would be, but somebody wanted it so I put it in.
Separator
Another separator.
Restore Tab
This button will restore the last closed tab.
Kill Flash
Click this button, to remove all flash embeds in the current page.
Separator
Another separator.
Font -
Decrease the font size.
Font +
Increase the font size.
Separator
Another separator.
User Agent
This allows you to quickly change mozilla's user agent string, which is useful when viewing sites that attempt to block non-IE browsers. This works for all server side and some client side detectors. The entry "Real UA" represents the correct value for whatever mozilla build you are using
The PrefBar automatically resets your user agent to the default (correct) value when you exit mozilla. This prevents you from running into Bug 83376 (unless mozilla crashes), and makes sure you don't forgot that you changed the UA string and leave it spoofed for three weeks.
Spacer
This widget doesn't display anything, but expands as big as it can, taking up all the extra space available and forcing everything to its right to the far right edge of the toolbar.
Separator
Another separator.
Help
A link to the index page of this help system.
What's New
A link to the What's New? page in this help system.
Separator
Another separator.
PrefBar homepage
A link to the homepage of the PrefBar project.
Mozilla.org
A link to mozilla.org, homepage of the mozilla project.
MozillaZine.org
A link to MozillaZine.org, gathering place for mozila developers and users.
Separator
Another separator.
Customize
This will quickly take you to the PrefBar customization dialog.
Separator
Another separator.
Hide Toolbar
A button to hide the PrefBar toolbar. Does the same thing as pressing F8.
Proxy Serverlist
A list, where you can add some proxies, you need, with the needed ports. This makes it easy to switch between the proxies.
Language
Enables to switch the language identifier, sent to webservers. The entry "Default" resets the setting of this preference back to the default setting, the author of your Firefox/SeaMonkey language pack defined for your locale.
That should be all of them. If you notice any errors in this file, be sure to let me know.