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Standard browser settings for use with UWM pages.

1. Click the time at lower right hand corner of the desktop.
2. A window will appear entitled Change date and time settings...
3. Click the Change time zone...
4. Make sure the time zone is correct for your local time - for Milwaukee, choose (UTC -06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) from the drop-down menu.
5. Ensure that the box Automatically adjust for daylight saving changes is checked.
6. Click OK.
7. Click Change date and time...
8. Adjust Date and Time (as close to the minute as possible).
9. Click OK.
10. Click Apply.
11. Click OK.
12. Close all open browser windows.

1. Open Mozilla Firefox. Click on the Open Menu button (the 3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner).
2. Click Options.
3. Click Content.
4. Click Choose... under Languages.
5. Click English/United States [en-us].
1. If language does not appear.
2. Select the dropdown box and scroll down to English/United States [en-us].
3. Click English/United States [en-us].
4. Click Add.
6. Click Move Up.
7. Click OK.
8. Click OK.
9. Close all open browser windows.

1. Open Mozilla Firefox. Click on the Open Menu button (the 3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner).
2. Click Privacy and Security.
3. Under Cookies and Site Data select Accept cookies and site data from websites.
4. Accept third-party cookies and site data to Always.
5. Close all open browser windows.

1. Open Mozilla Firefox. Click on the Open Menu button (the 3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner).
2. Go to Options --> Privacy and Security.
3. Under History, click clear your recent history.
4. Under Time range to clear, select Everything.
5. Check Cache.
6. Click Clear Now.
7. Close all open browser windows.

1. Type about:config in the address bar. Hit Enter.
2. If prompted with a warning message, click I accept the risk!
   
3. Type browser.cache.check_doc_frequency into the Search box.
4. Right-click on the entry that appears and select Modify.
5. Click OK.
6. Close all open browser windows.

1. Type about:config in the address bar. Hit Enter.
2. If prompted with a warning message, click I’ll be careful! I promise!
3. Type javascript.enabled into the Search box.
4. If Value is False, right click and select Toggle.
5. Close all open browser windows.

1. Go to www.java.com.
2. On the page should be a download link - click on it.
3. Download the latest Java version to your computer.
4. Install Java by following the directions it provides.
5. Close all open browser windows.

1. Open Mozilla Firefox. Click on the Open Menu button (the 3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner).
2. Click Add-ons.
3. Click Extensions or Plugins.
4. Click Disable for the extensions you wish to disable, or change the drop down menu to Ask to Activate or Never Activate.
5. Close all open browser windows.

1. Open Mozilla Firefox. Click on the Open Menu button (the 3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner).
2. Click Options.
3. Click on the General Tab and scroll down to Files and Applications.
4. Under Content Type, click on Portable Document Format
5. On the Action side, use the drop down arrow to bring up a list of alternatives for viewing PDFs in Firefox.
   
6. Select any option other than Preview in Firefox.
7. Close all open browser windows.