Settings for web content, pop-ups, fonts, and languages
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The Content panel in Firefox OptionsPreferences includes settings related to how a website's content is displayed. This article explains what settings are available.
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Content Settings
DRM Content
- Play DRM Content: By default, Firefox allows playback of Digital Rights Management (DRM) protected HTML5 audio and video content. Unchecking this option will turn off this feature. To learn more, see the article Watch DRM content on Firefox.
Notifications
Firefox lets you choose which websites are allowed to you send you notifications. To learn more, see the article Web Push notifications in Firefox. Click to make changes to the list of allowed sites.
- Do not disturb me: Select this option to temporarily suspend all notifications until you close and restart Firefox.
Pop-ups
- Block Pop-up Windows: By default, Firefox blocks annoying pop-up windows on websites. Unchecking this optionpreference will disable pop-up blocking.
Some websites make legitimate use of pop-up windows. Therefore, you can allow these sites to open pop-ups anyway. To do so, click , enter the site name, and click . To remove a website from the list, select it and then click . To clear the list completely, click . For more information, see the Pop-up blocker settings, exceptions and troubleshooting article.
Fonts & Colors
Default font and Size: Web pages are usually displayed in the font and size specified here (measured in pixels). However, web pages can override these choices unless you specify otherwise in the Fonts dialog. Click the optionspreferences.
button to access the Fonts dialog and to change this and other fontsFonts Dialog
- From the Fonts for drop-down list, choose a language group/script. For instance, to set default fonts for the West European languages/scripts (Latin), choose WesternLatin. For a language/script not in the list, choose Other LanguagesOther Writing Systems.
- Select whether proportional text should be serif (like "Times New Roman") or sans-serif (like "Arial"). Then specify the font size you want for proportional text.
- Specify the font to use for Serif, Sans-serif and Monospace fonts. You can also change the size for
Monospace fonts
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You can also set the minimum web page font size. This is useful to prevent sites from using overly small fonts that are barely readable.
- Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above: By default Firefox uses the fonts specified by the web page author. Disabling this optionpreference will force all sites to use your default fonts instead.
- Character Encoding for Legacy Content: The character encoding selected here will be used to display pages that don't specify which encoding to use.
Colors Dialog
Text and Background: Here you can change the default text and background color to be used on web pages that haven't specified that information. Click on the color samples to select colors.
- Use system colors Check this optionpreference to use the colors defined in your operating system settings instead of the colors specified above.
Link Colors: Here you can change the default colors for Web links. Click on the color samples to select colors.
- Underline links: By default, links are underlined on web pages. Uncheck this optionpreference to disable this. Note that many sites specify their own styling rules and this optionpreference has no effect on those sites.
- Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above: By default, Firefox uses the colors specified by the web page author. Disabling this optionpreference will force all sites to use your default colors instead.
Languages
Some web pages are offered in more than one language. Click the
button to specify your preferred language or languages.Languages Dialog: To add a language, click Select a language to add…, choose the language, and click the
button. Remove a language by selecting it in the list of active languages and clicking the button. You can also reorder languages using the and buttons to determine the most preferred one in case a page is provided in multiple languages.