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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN"
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<!ENTITY nsplugins-kcontrol SYSTEM "nsplugin.docbook">
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<!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE">
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<!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here -->
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<article lang="&language;">
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>&Krishna.Tateneni; &Krishna.Tateneni.mail;</author>
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<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
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</authorgroup>
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<date>2003-10-12</date>
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<releaseinfo>3.2</releaseinfo>
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<keywordset>
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<keyword>KDE</keyword>
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<keyword>KControl</keyword>
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<keyword>konqueror</keyword>
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<keyword>browsing</keyword>
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</keywordset>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1 id="konq-browsing">
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<title>Browsing With &konqueror;</title>
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<para>The &konqueror; Browser module of &kcontrol; allows you to select
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various options for the appearance and behavior of &konqueror;, the
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integrated web browser of &kde;.</para>
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<sect2 id="kbrowse-html">
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<title>Behavior</title>
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<para>The first option you can enable on this page is <guilabel>Enable
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completion of forms</guilabel>. If you check this box, &konqueror; will
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try to remember what you answer to form questions, and will try to fill
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in forms for you with the answers you previously used.</para>
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<para>You can configure the number of form items &konqueror; remembers
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with the slider below labelled <guilabel>Maximum
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completions</guilabel></para>
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<note><para>Of course, anything &konqueror; fills in a form with, you
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can still edit before submitting the form!</para></note>
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<para>The next option is <guilabel>Change cursor over
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links</guilabel>. If this option is selected, the shape of the cursor
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will change (usually to a hand) whenever it moves over a
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hyperlink. This makes it easy to identify links, especially when they
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are in the form of images.</para>
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<para>&konqueror; defaults to a single window per page, but has the
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capability to open multiple <firstterm>tabs</firstterm> inside a
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single window. &konqueror; also, by default, has a &MMB; shortcut to
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open any link in a new window. If you enable <guilabel>Open links in
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new tab instead of in new window</guilabel> you can &MMB; click on a
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link to have it open in a new tab.</para>
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<para>If you are using tabbed browsing, you can choose if a newly
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opened tab becomes the active (<quote>front</quote>) tab, or goes to
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the back. On a slow internet connection, or while browsing a page
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that has a list of headlines or other links in a list, you may like to
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have the new tabs load in the background while you continue reading.
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In this case, leave this setting disabled. If you prefer to go
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straight to the new page, leaving the old one in the background to
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return to later, enable it.</para>
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<para>If you close a window in &konqueror; that has multiple tabs
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open, &konqueror; will ask you if you're sure that you meant to close
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it. You can toggle on and off this behavior with the
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<guilabel>Confirm when closing windows with multiple tabs</guilabel>
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checkbox.</para>
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<para>As a convenience feature, if you enable <guilabel>Right click
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goes back in history</guilabel>, then clicking an empty area (&ie; not
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a link) in the &konqueror; window will act as if you pressed the
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<guiicon>Back</guiicon> button on the toolbar.</para>
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<para>The checkbox labeled <guilabel>Automatically load
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images</guilabel>, allows you to control whether images on web pages are
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loaded by default. Unless you have a very slow connection, you will
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probably want to leave this option selected, as there are many web pages
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that are difficult to use without images. If you don't select the option
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to automatically load images, you can still view the text on the page,
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and then load the images if you need them.</para>
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<para>Enabling <guilabel>Allow automatic delayed
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reloading/redirecting</guilabel> allows websites to send you to
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another page without your interaction. In many cases, this is a
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convenience. For example, the website has moved to a new
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<acronym>URL</acronym>. Many webmasters in this situation will put up
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a page on the old site, telling you that it has moved and you may like
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to change your bookmark, and then automatically move you along to the
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new website. However, such features can be confusing, or annoying,
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when misused, and so you may wish to disable it.</para>
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<para>The next setting is <guilabel>Underline links:</guilabel>. You can
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choose to underline links <guilabel>Always</guilabel>. If this option
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is selected, any text on web pages that acts as a link will be shown in
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an underlined font. While many web pages do use color to distinguish
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text that acts as a link, underlining makes it very easy to spot
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links.</para>
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<para>If you don't like underlined links, you can choose
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<guilabel>Never</guilabel>, so that no links are underlined. Or you
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can choose a middle ground, <guilabel>Hover</guilabel>, so that links
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are underlined when the mouse cursor is resting over them, and not
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underlined the rest of the time.</para>
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<para>Many web pages use animated gif images, and these can be very
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annoying, and in some cases, quite a drain on your system resources.
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The <guilabel>Animations</guilabel> option lets you choose when
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animations are enabled. The default is enabled, but you can set this
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to disabled, or to run the animation only once, even if the file
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itself contains instructions that the animation should run more times,
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or continuously.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="kbrowse-appearance">
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<title>Fonts</title>
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<para>Under this tab, you can select various options related to the use
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of fonts. Although the shapes and sizes of fonts are often part of the
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design of a web page, you can select some default settings for
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&konqueror; to use.</para>
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<para>The first thing you can set here is the font size. There are two
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settings which work together to allow you a comfortable browsing
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experience.</para>
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<para>Firstly, you can set a <guilabel>Minimum Font Size</guilabel>.
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This means, even if the font size is set specifically in the page you
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are viewing, &konqueror; will ignore that instruction and never show
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smaller fonts than you set here.</para>
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<para>Next you can set a <guilabel>Medium Font Size</guilabel>. This is
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not only the default size of text, used when the page doesn't specify
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sizes, but it is also used as the base size that relative font sizes are
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calculated against. That is, the <acronym>HTML</acronym> instruction
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<quote>smaller</quote>, it means smaller than the size you set for this
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option.</para>
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<para>For either option, you can select the exact font size in points by
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using the up/down spin control (or just typing) next to the option
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label.</para>
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<para>These options are independent of each other. Pages that do not
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set a font size, or ask for the default, will display with the size
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you set from <guilabel>Medium Font Size</guilabel>, while any pages
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that ask for a size smaller than your <guilabel>Minimum Font
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Size</guilabel> setting will instead show that size. The one does not
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affect the other.</para>
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<para>The remaining options are for the fonts to be associated with
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different types of markup used in <acronym>HTML</acronym> pages. Note
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that many web pages may override these settings. If you click anywhere
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on a control which shows a font name, a list of font names appears, and
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you can select a different font if you like. (If there are a lot of
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fonts, a vertical scrollbar appears in the list to allow you to scroll
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through all of the fonts.)</para>
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<para>You can set a font for each <quote>type</quote> of markup, for
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each <guilabel>Charset</guilabel>, by changing the character set in the
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first drop down box, and then selecting a font for each category below.
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This would take quite some time, so you may just want to set up the
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fonts for your default character set. Most English speaking users will
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use iso8859-1</para>
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-->
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<para>Below this, you can set a <guilabel>Font size adjustment for this
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encoding</guilabel>. Sometimes the fonts you want to use for a
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particular encoding or language are much larger or smaller than average,
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so you can use this setting to bring them into line.</para>
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<para>You can set a default encoding that &konqueror; should assume
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pages are when rendering them. The default setting is <guilabel>Use
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language encoding</guilabel>, but you can change it to any encoding
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available in the list.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="kbrowse-java">
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<title>&Java; and JavaScript</title>
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<para>&Java; allows applications to be downloaded and run by a web
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browser, provided you have the necessary software installed on your
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machine. Many web sites make use of &Java; (for example, online
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banking services or interactive gaming sites). You should be aware
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that running programs from unknown sources could pose a threat to the
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security of your computer, even if the potential extent of the damage
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is not great.</para>
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<para>The checkboxes under <guilabel>Global Settings</guilabel> allows
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you to turn &Java; support on for all web sites by default. You can
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also select to turn &Java; on or off for specific hosts. To add a
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policy for a specific host, click the <guilabel>Add...</guilabel>
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button to bring up a dialog in which you can type the host name and
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then choose to accept or reject &Java; code from that particular host,
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which will add the domain to the list on the left of the page.</para>
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<para>You can select a host in the list, and click the
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<guilabel>Change...</guilabel> button to choose a different policy for
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that host. Clicking the <guilabel>Delete</guilabel> button removes the
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policy for the selected host; after deletion, the global settings will
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then apply to that host. You can import policies from a file by clicking
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the <guilabel>Import...</guilabel> button. To save the current list to a
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compressed archive file, click the <guilabel>Export...</guilabel>
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button.</para>
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<para>Finally, the group of controls labeled <guilabel>Java Runtime
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Settings</guilabel> allows you to set some options for the way in
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which &Java; should run. These options are useful for diagnosing
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problems, or if you are a &Java; developer, and should not normally
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need adjusting.</para>
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<para>If you select the <guilabel>Show Java
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Console</guilabel> option, &konqueror; will open a console window from
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which &Java; applications can read and write text. While most &Java;
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applications will not require such a console, it could be helpful in
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diagnosing problems with &Java; applications.</para>
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<para><guilabel>Use KIO</guilabel> will cause the
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<acronym>JVM</acronym>to use &kde;'s own <acronym>KIO</acronym>
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transports for network connections.</para>
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<para><guilabel>Use security
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manager</guilabel> is normally enabled by default. This setting will
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cause the <acronym>JVM</acronym> to run with a Security Manager in place. This will keep
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applets from being able to read and write to your file system, creating
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arbitrary sockets, and other actions which could be used to compromise
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your system. Disable this option at your own risk. You can modify your <filename>$<envar>HOME</envar>/.java.policy</filename> file with the
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&Java; policytool utility to give code downloaded from certain sites
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more permissions.</para>
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<para>The <guilabel>Shutdown Applet Server when inactive</guilabel>
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checkbox allows you to save resources by closing the &Java; Applet
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Server when it is not in use, rather than leaving it running in the
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background. Leaving this disabled may make &Java; applets start up
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faster, but it will use system resources when you are not using a
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&Java; applet. If you enable this, you can set a timeout.</para>
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<para>You can either opt to have &konqueror; automatically detect the
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&Java; installation on your system, or specify the path to the
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installation yourself by selecting <guilabel>Use user-specified
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Java</guilabel>. You may want to choose the latter method, for
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instance, if you have multiple &Java; installations on your system,
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and want to specify which one to use. If the &Java; Virtual Machine
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you are using requires any special startup options, you can type them
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in the text box labeled <guilabel>Additional Java
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Arguments</guilabel>.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="kbrowse-javascript">
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<title>JavaScript</title>
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<para>Despite the name, JavaScript is not related at all to
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&Java;.</para>
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<para>The first part of this page works the same as the &Java; page
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settings.</para>
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<para>The checkboxes under <guilabel>Global Settings</guilabel> allow
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you to turn JavaScript support on for all web sites by default. You
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can also select to turn JavaScript on or off for specific hosts. To
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add a policy for a specific host, click the
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<guilabel>Add...</guilabel> button to bring up a dialog in which you
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can type the host name and then choose to accept or reject JavaScript
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code from that particular host, which will add the domain to the list
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on the left of the page.</para>
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<para>You can select a host in the list, and click the
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<guilabel>Change...</guilabel> button to choose a different policy for
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that host. Clicking the <guilabel>Delete</guilabel> button removes the
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policy for the selected host; after deletion, the global settings will
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then apply to that host. You can import policies from a file by
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clicking the <guilabel>Import...</guilabel> button. To save the
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current list to a compressed archive file, click the
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<guilabel>Export...</guilabel> button.</para>
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<para>The final set of options on this page determine what happens
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when a page uses JavaScript for specific actions.</para>
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<para>You can individually enable or disable the ability of JavaScript
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to manipulate your windows by moving, resizing or changing focus. You
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can also disable JavaScript from changing the status bar text, so that
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for instance, you can always see where links will take you when
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clicked.The choices for these options are <guilabel>Allow</guilabel> and
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<guilabel>Ignore</guilabel>.</para>
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<para>For opening a new window, there is even more control. You can
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set &konqueror; to <guilabel>Allow</guilabel> all such requests,
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<guilabel>Ask</guilabel> each time a request is made, or
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<guilabel>Deny</guilabel> all popup requests.</para>
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<para>The <guilabel>Smart</guilabel> setting will only allow
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JavaScript popup windows when you have explicitly chosen a link that
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creates one.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="khtml-adblock">
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<title>AdBlocK</title>
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<para>&konqueror; AdBlocK can be configured to replace or remove
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images or frames from web pages that match a series of filters.</para>
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<para>The setting <guilabel>Enable filters</guilabel> enables or
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disables the use of list of URL filters.</para>
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<para>If <guilabel>Hide filtered images</guilabel> is enabled then
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blocked images are completely removed from the page and the space they
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occupied is reclaimed. If the option is disabled then a placeholder
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image is used in place of filtered images.</para>
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<para><guilabel>URL expressions to filter</guilabel> is a list of
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URLs that will be compared against image and frame names to decide
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on fitlering actions. The wildcards can be given as filename style
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regular expressions.</para>
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<para>Each filter can either be expressed as a file style wildcard
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string (e.g. http://www.site.com/ads/*) or as a full regular expression
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by enclosing the filter with forward slashes (e.g. //(ads|dclk)\./).</para>
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<para>Import and export will save or read the current filter list to a
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plain text file. Lines prefixed with an exclamation mark (!) are treated
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as comments and can be used to clarify or label a set of filters.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="kbrowse-plugins">
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<title>Plugins</title>
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<para>The first setting here is <guilabel>Enable Plugins
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globally</guilabel>. If you disable this checkbox, then &konqueror;
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will not use any plugins. If you enable it, then any installed and
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configured plugins that it can find will be used by &konqueror;</para>
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<para>You can also restrict &konqueror; to <guilabel>Only allow HTTP
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and HTTPS URLs for plugins</guilabel> by checking the box.</para>
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</sect2>
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&nsplugins-kcontrol;
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</sect1>
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</article>
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