PrefBar Help    
Introduction Using the PrefBar What's New? Button List PrefBar FAQ Credits Help/Feedback

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

Type: Button
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

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

Type: Separator
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

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)

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

This toggles javascript for the selected tab.

Images (Tab)

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

This toggles images for the selected tab.

Plugins (Tab)

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

This toggles plugins for the selected tab.


Fonts

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

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

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

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

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

Toggles between the colors chosen in the prefs dialog and your system colors. Only useful when the Colors pref is turned off.

Images

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

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

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

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

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

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

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

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

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

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

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

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

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

This switches the proxy settings between "No Proxies" (disabled) and the last setting, you had set, before unchecking the box (enabled).

Proxy Menulist

Type: Menulist
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

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

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

This toggles the cookie preferences from "Enable all cookies" (enabled) to "Disable cookies" (disabled).

Cookie Warning

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

When turned on, mozilla will put up a warning dialog before any site it allowed to store a cookie or modify a cookie.

Pipelining

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

Enables or disables http pipelining. This is supposed to speed up page loads over dialup, but not all servers support it.

Cache

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

This toggles the browser cache on and off.

Send Referrer

Type: Checkbox
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

When disabled, mozilla will not send referrer url information with page requests.

Separator

Type: Separator
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

Another separator.


Clear Cache

Type: Button
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

This clears mozilla's browser cache.

Clear History

Type: Button
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

Clears mozilla's global browser history.

Clear Location Bar

Type: Button
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

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

Type: Button
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

Clears all Cookies.

Clear All

Type: Button
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

Clears the History, the Location Bar, Disk Cache, and Memory Cache.

Separator

Type: Separator
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

Another separator.


Resize

Type: Extlist
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: YES

Resizes the browser window to the resolution you select in the menulist.

Separator

Type: Separator
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

Another separator.


New Tab

Type: Button
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

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

Type: Separator
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

Another separator.


Restore Tab

Type: Button
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

This button will restore the last closed tab.

Kill Flash

Type: Button
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

Click this button, to remove all flash embeds in the current page.

Separator

Type: Separator
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

Another separator.


Font -

Type: Button
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

Decrease the font size.

Font +

Type: Button
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

Increase the font size.

Separator

Type: Separator
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

Another separator.


User Agent

Type: Menulist
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: YES

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

Type: Spacer
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

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

Type: Separator
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

Another separator.

Help

Type: Link
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

A link to the index page of this help system.

What's New

Type: Link
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

A link to the What's New? page in this help system.


Separator

Type: Separator
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

Another separator.

Type: Link
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

A link to the homepage of the PrefBar project.

Mozilla.org

Type: Link
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

A link to mozilla.org, homepage of the mozilla project.

MozillaZine.org

Type: Link
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

A link to MozillaZine.org, gathering place for mozila developers and users.


Separator

Type: Separator
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

Another separator.

Customize

Type: Button
Default Status: Visible
Customizable: NO

This will quickly take you to the PrefBar customization dialog.


Separator

Type: Separator
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

Another separator.

Hide Toolbar

Type: Button
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: NO

A button to hide the PrefBar toolbar. Does the same thing as pressing F8.

Proxy Serverlist

Type: Menulist
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: YES

A list, where you can add some proxies, you need, with the needed ports. This makes it easy to switch between the proxies.

Language

Type: Extlist
Default Status: Hidden
Customizable: YES

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.