$OpenBSD: README.OpenBSD,v 1.8 2008/11/20 23:41:32 martynas Exp $
If you encounter strange problems relating to bookmarks, downloads,
window placement, toolbars, history, or other settings, it is
recommended that you create a new profile and attempt to
reproduce the problem before filing bugs. To create a new profile,
start Firefox with the -ProfileManager switch, e.g.
firefox -ProfileManager, and click "Create Profile".
If Firefox doesn't start at all, try starting it with -safe-mode
switch, which disables extensions and themes for your session.
To disable anti-aliasing (xft) set GDK_USE_XFT=0 in the environment.
Using mailto: links
To enable mailto: links in Firefox to open in your mail program,
you may have to set a mailto protocol handler. Type "about:config"
in Firefox's URL text field. Type "mailto" in the filter. If there
is a string called "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", its value
names the application for mailto URLs. If present, right click,
choose Modify, and enter the path to your mail program, e.g.,
"!!LOCALBASE!!/bin/thunderbird" or "!!LOCALBASE!!/bin/kmail" (other
programs may work, but these two have been tested). If absent,
right click, choose New String. Set the name to
"network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" and the value to the path to
your mailer.
Plugins
Firefox looks for plugins in ~/.mozilla/plugins,
!!PREFIX!!/lib/mozilla-plugins, and !!PREFIX!!/mozilla-firefox/plugins.
If the environment variable MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH is specified, this
location will be overridden.
Using Java Applets
To make Applets work, you must symlink (not copy) the file
libjavaplugin_oji.so into one of the directories listed above.
This might be done like the following:
$ cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
$ ln -s !!LOCALBASE!!/jdk-1.5.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .
$
Information on building Java (on some platforms) can be found in
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#javaflash
Enabling ECC cipher suites
Open the URL about:config and type security.ssl3 in the search
filter. This will bring up a list of all available cipher suites.
Double-click on any cipher to toggle its state. For example, to
enable TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, double-click on
security.ssl3.ecdhe_ecdsa_aes128_sha until its boolean entry in the
Value column changes to true.
Using CUPS and LPR for printing
Since version 3, Firefox uses standard printing dialog from gtk+2.
In order to use CUPS for printing, you will need to install cups
subpackage of gtk+2, i.e.:
# pkg_add gtk+2-cups
Gtk+2 doesn't try to use LPR printing backend by default. In order
to use LPR for printing, create ~/.gtkrc-2.0 with the following
contents:
gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr,cups"
If you want to make this change available for all users, use
/etc/gtkrc instead of ~/.gtkrc-2.0.
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