Change Firefox controls, options, settings and preferences
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Basic controls and options
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How to set the home page
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How to change and manage search engines
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Bookmarks Toolbar - Display your favorite websites at the top of the Firefox window
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Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars
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Font size and zoom – increase the size of web pages
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Customize navigation buttons like back, home, bookmarks and reload
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Find and manage downloaded files
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How to make Firefox and websites go full screen
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Search the web from the Address Bar
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Display the Firefox button menu instead of the menu toolbar
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The Add-on Bar gives you quick access to add-on features
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Pop-up blocker settings, exceptions and troubleshooting
Solve problems
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Fix problems with your home page or search
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Navigation buttons like back, home, bookmarks and reload are missing
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How to fix preferences that won't save
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What happened to the Status Bar?
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What happened to the File, Edit, and View menus?
Advanced settings
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Awesome Bar - Find your bookmarks, history and tabs when you type in the address bar
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Changing fonts and colors
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Managing file types and download actions
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Javascript settings
Set default programs
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How to make web links open in Firefox by default
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Setting Firefox as the default browser does not work - What to do
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Change the program used to open email links
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View PDF files in Firefox without downloading them
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Set how Firefox handles different types of files
Your profile – stores settings, bookmarks, passwords and other information
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Where your profile is and what's stored in it
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Create and delete profiles
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Back up and restore profiles
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Recovering important data from an old profile