I have scoured the internet and no solution. I need to turn on/off the proxy setting in Firefox but the version I have, firefox portable, which has the particular proxy setting I need to alter, has the menu bar but that menu bar has no 'tools' option

All I have found ion the internet is customize/show the menu bar, that is easy enough. I can see display/not display th emenu bar but there is no tools, I have also looked at customize the menu bar but tools is not amongst the options

Anyone any ideas?

type about:config into the address field

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries

be careful!

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Thanks, but in every case in theat link you gave me says "this can be changed in tools -> etc" that's the whole problem, I don't have Tools on the Menu Bar, I have....File, Edit, History, Bookmarks, Help..... Tools is missing

Hi,

type about:config where you normally type in your url. You will get a big list of settings.

You find the line with the value you want to change and double click on it. You should a get a dialog allowing you to enter a new value. Booleans are toggled by double clicking on them.

There is a search field to help you find what you want to change.

It's like the registry of Firefox. You can break your installation.

/erol

How about Help...Troubleshooting...Reset

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-to-the-file-edit-and-vie w-menus?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Menu+bar+is+missing

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Hi,

type about:config where you normally type in your url. You will get a big list of settings.

You find the line with the value you want to change and double click on it. You should a get a dialog allowing you to enter a new value. Booleans are toggled by double clicking on them.

There is a search field to help you find what you want to change.

It's like the registry of Firefox. You can break your installation.

/erol

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Thanks Ezza, but that's the whole problem, I don't know exactly what I'm looking for. I got the about:config stuff displayed, but it seems that page cannt be searched (with the usual ctrl + f) and even if it did, what do I look for menu? tools? though I tried them and the search doesn't work

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How about Help...Troubleshooting...Reset

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-to-the-fil...

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Nah, that's the first place I went - the Menu bar is there, the tools option isn't, and I have already looked at Menu Bar/Customization

To turn off set the value of network.proxy.type to zero. Make a note of what it currently is to turn it back again.

Edited by ginge6000 (05/10/12 04:18 PM)

FYI - the setting values are:

0 - No proxy
1 - Manual proxy
2 - Auto proxy URL
4 - Auto detect for network
5 - Use system proxy


Not sure what happened to 3.......!

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To turn off set the value of network.proxy.type to zero. Make a note of what it currently is to turn it back again.

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type 'zero' where?

Double click on the setting and a pop-up box should appear for you to type into.

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Double click on the setting and a pop-up box should appear for you to type into.

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Thanks, so doing that will return the 'Tools' option to the MenuBar? as I seem to remember Tools has a lot more options than just network proxy

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Double click on the setting and a pop-up box should appear for you to type into.

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Thanks, so doing that will return the 'Tools' option to the MenuBar? as I seem to remember Tools has a lot more options than just network proxy

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No, doing that will turn the proxy on and off. I have no idea why the portable version of Firefox doesn't have a Tools option.

However, they recently changed Firefox so you have to click on on the button top left to access more menus - have you checked in there?

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Double click on the setting and a pop-up box should appear for you to type into.

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Thanks, so doing that will return the 'Tools' option to the MenuBar? as I seem to remember Tools has a lot more options than just network proxy

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No, doing that will turn the proxy on and off. I have no idea why the portable version of Firefox doesn't have a Tools option.

However, they recently changed Firefox so you have to click on on the button top left to access more menus - have you checked in there?

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I have 2 versions of Firefox, one has the full compliment of Menu items, this I am using now, but the other, which I need to run from a USB key for work, doesn't. Yep, clicked on the FF Icon at the top left, and that just gives me the Windows "Restore, Minimize, Close' thingys