Month: June 2021

Click on the Firefox Icon

Open the Mozilla Firefox web browser on your chosen computer or device. Click the orange Firefox icon in the top-left corner of your browser.

Select ‘Advanced’

In the drop-down list, choose ‘Options’. From the new list that appears, choose the ‘Advanced’ option. Navigate to the ‘Accessibility’ section of the window and click on the ‘General’ tab.

Remove the Checkmark

Remove the checkmark next to the section ‘Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page’. By removing this option, your browser will now automatically refresh web pages.

If you would like to have some more features when it comes to refreshing your webpages, such as setting the refresh intervals, it might be worth considering a Firefox add-on. A few free add-ons enable you to refresh pages, set reload intervals, and more automatically. You could look at Tab Auto Reload or Auto Refresh as optional add-ons that have these extra features.

Click on the Hamburger

Open the web browser on your computer by clicking on the shortcut on your desktop, the icon on your hotbar or dock or from your app menu. Click on the three horizontal lines (hamburger) at the top right of the screen. This will open up a drop-down list of your browser settings

Click on ‘Options’ and Then ‘Advanced’

In the drop-down list, click ‘Options’. Next, click ‘Advanced’.

Remove Certificate Validation

Now click the ‘Encryption’ option from the options provided. In the encryption window, click the ‘Validate’ button. Remove the checkmark next to ‘Certificate Validation’ and click ‘Ok’.

From now on, Firefox will accept all certificates without validating them first. You will no longer get an ‘Invalid Certificate’ error when trying to gain access to different sites.

Changing to Firefox in Windows

– Click on the menu button in your current browser.

– Select Options. Click Default in the General panel. Windows Settings will open with a screen that says Choose default. Click Web browser.

A list will open in a dialog box. Choose Firefox. Click the X on the top right to close Settings and save the changes.

Changing to Firefox on a Mac

– First, install Mozilla Firefox on your computer. 

– Select System Preferences in the Apple menu and then click General.

– A list of Web browsers will appear in the Default web browser menu.

 – Choose Mozilla Firefox.

Changing to Firefox on an iPhone

 If you don’t have it, download the Firefox app for your iOS browser. Make sure you have the latest version. In Settings, go to the Firefox app. Tap on the Default Browser App and select  Firefox.

Changing to Firefox on Android

– Tap Menu on the right at the top of the screen. –

– Tap Settings. Then tap the switch to Make Firefox Focus the default browser. This will open the Default apps screen.

• Tap Browser app. Tap Firefox Focus to select it.

Find your Add-ons and Themes

Click on the three horizontal lines on the top right-hand corner of your screen, called a Hamburger Menu. This will open a menu and from that menu, click on Add-ons and Themes.

Select Extensions

Extensions add features to Firefox or modify existing features. AdBlock is an extension in Firefox.

Modify AdBlock

Here you have two options; you can disable AdBlock, which means it will remain part of your Firefox but not work until you enable it again, or you can choose to remove it altogether.

To disable AdBlock, click on the blue slider to move it to the left, and the slider turns grey.

Find your History

Click on the three horizontal lines on the top right-hand corner of your screen. This will open a menu and from that menu, click on History.

Select Clear Recent History

Click on the menu item, “Clear Recent History.”

Select What to Clear

Once you select the option “Clear Recent History,” you will be given a pop-up box with several selections on it. Work through each one that is relevant for what you want to achieve.

Open the Options Menu

Click on the three horizontal lines on the top right-hand corner of your screen and choose the Options menu item.

Select Privacy & Security

Click on the Privacy & Security option in the menu on the left-hand side of the screen.

Adjust your Browser Privacy Settings

Click on the option to set up Custom Settings.

Select the Cookie Setting you want to use

If you click on the box next to Cookies, all cookies will be accepted by your computer.

If you click on the drop-down box, you will find other options:

– “Cross-site tracking cookies – includes social media cookies” – this means that if the web page you are on has a button to another page, Firefox will not allow a cookie from that other page to be stored on your computer. This includes pages for social media such as Facebook, Instagram, etc.

– “Cookies from unvisited websites” – this is self-explanatory and stops the page you are on from storing cookies from pages you have not visited on your computer.

– “All third party cookies – may cause websites to break” – an example of this would be that the page you are on has a ‘Like’ button. If you click that ‘Like’ button, the website will store a cookie from that site on your computer.

• “All cookies” – again, this is self-explanatory. No cookies from any website will be permitted to be stored on your computer. Be careful before using this, as it can affect your browsing experience. An example would be a shopping cart may not work correctly as the page cannot track all the items you have stored in your cart while browsing around the products for sale.

Choose ‘Preferences’

Open your Firefox browser on your computer. Click on the three horizontal lines (burger) in the top right of the screen. Now, click ‘Preferences’ in the drop-down list.

Clear Your Browsing Data

Choose the ‘Privacy and Security’ option from the list on the left-hand side of the screen.

Scroll through the list provided and click on ‘Cookies and Site Data’. When you’re done, click on ‘Clear Data’ to the right of the screen.

Choose to Clear the Caches Web Content

In the new pop-up window, select the option to clear ‘Cached web Content’. You can also choose to clear cookies and site data, but be aware that you may be signed out of all websites and will remove offline web content by selecting this option. When you’ve decided what data to clear, you can click on ‘Clear’ at the bottom of the window to finalize the process.