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Jancy

Core

These settings provide a way to configure basic Jancy functionality.

Core Settings

Home Page

Default URL to use for new tabs

Prompt before exiting

If checked this will ask the user for confirmation before exiting the application.

Max tabs per window

The maximum number of tabs per window.

A value of zero means there is no cap on the number of tabs a window can have.

Max tabs that can be restored

The maximum number of tabs per window that can be restored.

When you close a tab in Jancy and it’s eligible to be restored, the tab won’t actually go away. It’ll just live offscreen. Setting this value to a high number means a potentially increased number of tabs living offscreen consuming resources.

For example. If you set this value to 25 and open 25 tabs in Jancy. Then close those 25 tabs and then open another 25 tabs. You’ll effectively have 50 tabs open: 25 you can see and 25 living offscreen.

Second Jancy instances open as

If Jancy is already open and the user starts another instance, this setting determines how the first instance responds.

  • new window creates a new window in the first Jancy instance
  • new tab in the window that had focus last creates a new tab in the Jancy window that currently has focus
  • new tab of the first window opened creates a new tab in the oldest Jancy window
  • new tab of the last window opened creates a new tab in the youngest Jancy window

Named windows

Define common window names for use with the Move tabs to a named window feature.

Separate multiple values with a comma.

Username

This setting can be used by plug-ins like Namath to convey additional information.

Startup

On startup

This setting determines how Jancy starts.

  • start fresh start over with a single tab
  • restore previous windows and tabs tries to restore Jancy to how it was prior to shutting down previously.

This doesn’t restore every aspect of the old tabs like proxies and cookies.

Automatically check for new versions of Jancy

If checked this will have Jancy look for new versions on startup.

New Tabs

Start with a profile selected

If checked new tabs will be created with a profile already selected.

For this to work properly you need to have one or more profile providers configured.

Use a random profile

If checked, a random profile will be selected into the tab that’s not currently in use in another tab. Otherwise, profiles are chosen in order after first sorting all profiles by group name and then by profile name and then taking into account buyer filtering. Adding, removing, or reloading a profile provider will cause profiles to be issued from the start of the list again.

The last selected profile is not remembered across Jancy starts and stops.

Start with proxies enabled

If checked new tabs will be created with proxies enabled.

For this to work properly you need to have one or more proxy providers configured. The proxies assigned to the new tabs will come from the current default proxy provider.

Start with audio muted

If checked tabs will start muted.

Start with images enabled

If checked tabs will start with images enabled.

Video autoplay

Policy used when deciding if a video is allowed to autoplay

  • user gesture required users need to interact with the document befor video content is played automatically
  • no user gesture is required users don’t need to interact with the document for video sources to start playing automatically

Not all websites abide by this policy. I’m looking at you AXS waiting rooms.

Tab Creation

Tabs created by an existing tab open as a

Determines how tabs created by an existing tab are created.

  • new tab a new tab will be created and won’t be related to the parent tab.
  • new related tab a new related tab will be created
  • new window a new window will be created for the new tab
  • new window as a related tab a new window will be created and the new tab will be related to the parent tab

Determines how tabs created by holding ctrl + clicking on a link are created.

  • new tab a new tab will be created and won’t be related to the parent tab.
  • new related tab a new related tab will be created
  • new window a new window will be created for the new tab
  • new window as a related tab a new window will be created and the new tab will be related to the parent tab
  • do nothing take no action. a new tab won’t be created

Determines how tabs created by holding shift + clicking on a link are created.

  • new tab a new tab will be created and won’t be related to the parent tab.
  • new related tab a new related tab will be created
  • new window a new window will be created for the new tab
  • new window as a related tab a new window will be created and the new tab will be related to the parent tab
  • do nothing take no action. a new tab won’t be created

Tab strings open in a

Determines how tabs created from a tab string are created.

  • new tab a new tab will be created
  • new window a new tab in a new window will be created

When creating mulitple tabs, wait this many seconds between the first navigation in each tab

Determines the number of seconds a tab will wait when navigating for the first time when launching multiple tabs.

All the tabs will be created immediately.

With a value of 2 seconds and creating 5 tabs, here’s the timing of the first navigation event in each tab.

  • the first tab will navigate right away
  • the second tab will navigate 2 seconds after the first tab
  • the third tab will navigate 2 seconds after the second tab or 4 seconds after the first tab
  • the fourth tab will navigate 2 seconds after the third tab or 6 seconds after the first tab
  • the fifth tab will navigate 2 seconds after the fourth tab or 8 seconds after the first tab

The setting was previously called When creating mulitple tabs, wait this many seconds between each tab.

When creating multiple tabs, warn if creating more than this many tabs (0 disables the warning)

If you create more than this many tabs at once, a warning message will appear confirming you want to continue. A value of zero or an empty value will disable any warnings.

Focus new tabs

If checked, new tabs will become the currently focussed tab.

Focus new tabs when created by an existing tab

If checked, tabs created from an existing tab will become the currently focussed tab.

Copy tab notes when creating a tab from an existing tab

If checked, tab notes will be copied to the new tab created from an existing tab.

If checked, dragging a link onto the web content of a tab will force a new tab to be made. Otherwise the link will cause the current tab to navigate.

Screenshots

Filename

This format string lets you customize the default filename used for tab screenshots.

The ctx object contains the following properties:

Format strings are discussed in more detail here.

Provider

Sets the provider to use for web searches.

  • Google
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Bing

Tab Notes

Split tab notes on equal signs

If checked, modifies the value pasted for tab notes in the web page context menu if the note contains an equal sign in it.

Tab Reloading

Stop tab autoreload on click in page

If checked and if tab autoreloading is turned on for a tab, clicking anywhere in a page will turn autoreload off.

New tabs start with “Focus tab on auto-reload” enabled

If checked, new tabs will be created with the option to give tabs focus when auto-reload runs in the tab.

Time Options

Here you can set your own tab reload time options that show in the context menu of a tab. The format must be <amount> <unit> e.g. 10 seconds, 1 minute, 100 hours

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Timezones

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Here you can configure timezones that are available to you in the timezone context menu. You can have as many as you would like, the default is to use the systems timezone.