Mozilla help

Jason Clinton clintonj at umkc.edu
Tue Nov 5 21:09:16 CST 2002


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Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
| When reading plain-text messages with "indented portions" or "quoted
| text" (where the left column contains ">"), the > is changed to a
| vertical bar.  I have found the controls to change the size and color of
| the bar, but I have not yet found a way to prevent this mangling of the
| display entirely...it's almost as bad as the replacement of "smilies"
| with cute little icons :-)

Edit > Preferences > Mail & Newsgroups > Use this font when displaying plain
text messages: Fixed width font.

Edit > Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings > [your account] > Compose messages in
HTML format > uncheck

If you start to write a response and the wrapping is a bit odd, just go:
Options > Rewrap

| Oh...and any "favorite configuration tweaks" would be appreciated as
| well, since I'm still coming up to speed.

Edit > Prefereces > Advanced > Scripts and Windows > Turn off everything but the
last three and disable plugins in mail & news

Edit > Prefereces > Advanced > HTTP > Enable Pipelining

Edit > Prefereces > Privacy and Security > Passwords > Use encryption when
storing sensitive data

Edit > Prefereces > Privacy and Security > Master Password > Change master password

Edit > Prefereces > Privacy and Security > Certificates > Manage Security
Devices > Enable FIPS

Now you can rest easier when Mozilla saves your logins and passwords.

Mozilla 1.1 adds the ability to force a message to display in plain text only.

| One more question:  I'm really missing being able to go to the
| top/bottom of a message using the PageUp & PageDown keys.

Ctrl + Shift + Home or End
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