Windows

Managing cookies in Firefox

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Firefox, by default, allows cookies to be set by all websites. We advise installing the “Cookie AutoDelete” extension so that you can control which websites can save their cookies on your system. You only really need to allow cookies from sites that you want to interact with, such as sites that you need to log in to for shopping, banking, webmail, for example.

Installing Cookie Whitelist
  •  Open Firefox
  • Tools > Add-ons.  Then choose Extensions from the left hand side.
  • In the Search box on the top, right of page – type “cookie autodelete”.
  • Find “Cookie AutoDelete” (by the CAD Team) and click it Then click the “Add to Firefox”.
  • You need to allow the permissions it asks for;  click the Install button when it’s ready.
  • It will open an info page/tab in the browser (which you can close or ignore).
How to use Cookie AutoDelete

Once this extension is installed, a button is added to the top-right of your browser to allow easy control over cookies.

Click it to open a drop down panel of the controls.

All you have to do here is click the red button on the left which says “Auto-clean disabled”.  When you click it, it will turn green and say “Auto-clean enabled”. You can now close the box (for the moment!) by clicking the top-right button (which will now be red, indicating that cookies are not being stored for the page you’re on).

TO SET YOUR COOKIE OPTIONS ACCORDING TO THE WEBSITE

For each website you visit, the cookies will now automatically be off (red cookie button) so no action needed until you want to whitelist or blacklist a website:

  • In that case, click the cookie button in the top-right of your browser From the dropdown, you can click the appropriate whitelist/greylist button(s).  The button will change colour according to your choice, allowing to to see at a glance your chosen cookie choice for that site.

RED – means that cookies have not been allowed

BLUE – means that you’ve whitelisted the site

YELLOW – means you’ve greylisted the site.  This allows the site to be used for a session, but the cookies will be cleared when you close the tab/page.

It’s also very easy to remove the whitelisted/greylisted sites from the same place so don’t worry if you change your mind about a website!

Printing an A5 brochure in LibreOffice Writer

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You can print a LibreOffice Writer document as a brochure or a booklet. That is, Writer prints two pages on each side of the paper, so that when you fold the paper, you can read the document as a book.

When you create a document that you want to print as a brochure, write your document in ordinery A4 pages, using portrait orientation for the pages. Writer will apply the brochure layout when you print the document.

To Print a Brochure

Choose File – Print.
In the Print dialog, click Properties.
In the properties dialog for your printer, set the paper orientation to landscape.

If your printer prints duplex, and because brochures always print in landscape mode, you should use the “duplex – short edge” setting in your printer setup dialog.

Return to Print dialog, and click the Page Layout tab page.
Select Brochure.
For a printer that automatically prints on both sides of a page, specify to include “All pages”.

Click OK.

If you print a document in portrait on a landscape page, two opposing sides in a brochure will be printed next to each other. If you have a printer with double-sided printing capability, you can create an entire brochure from your document without having to collate the pages later. If you have a printer that only has single-sided printing capability, you can achieve this effect by first printing the front pages with the “Front sides / right pages /odd pages” option marked, then re-inserting the entire paper stack in your printer and printing all the back pages with the “Back pages / left pages / even pages” option marked.
Note: If LibreOffice prints the pages in the wrong order, open the Options tab page, select Print in reverse page order, and then print the document again.