Some anti-virus programs (and firewalls and anti-malware programs) will incorrectly flag a viewer - or necessary components of a viewer - as a virus or threat. They may remove the suspected part completely, rendering all or part of the viewer slow or non-functional. There is at least one anti-virus program which will scan every file placed on your computer, even if created by an authorized program. This can affect Firestorm (or any viewer) in that it will scan each and every texture placed in cache, slowing down performance of the viewer significantly, keeping objects and/or textures from rezzing, and keeping CPU usage high.

There is nothing we can do about this. However, it should be possible for you to tell your anti-virus (firewalls/anti-malware) that the viewer is safe; you will need to whitelist the viewer program as well as some components.

The following is a list of some protection software and how to whitelist. Naturally we cannot provide instructions for all existing programs, and the information here may be outdated. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you consult the software manual for the specific program you use, for accurate and up to date information.

In the instructions below, substitute “firewall” or “anti-malware program” for “anti-virus” as needed.

In your anti-virus program, whitelist the following, per the instructions below (or better, consult the manual for your anti-virus software):

• The viewer:
  • On Windows the viewer install folder is by default
    • 64-bit - C:\Program Files\Firestormx64-Release
    • 32-bit - C:\Program Files\Firestorm-Release
    • 32-bit on x64 - C:\Program Files (x86)\Firestorm-Release
      Inside this, the viewer itself (firestorm.exe), slplugin.exe, slvoice.exe and dullahan_host.exe (inside llplugin folder)
  • On Mac: the Firestorm application (normally in your Applications folder)
  • On Linux: the executables in /path/to/installation/bin/ (do-not-directly-run-firestorm-bin, dullahan_host, SLPlugin and SLVoice)
• The cache folder
  • In its default location, the folder is hidden on most OSs. To find it, you will need to show hidden folders. Now you need to locate the cache folder:
    • Windows 64-bit: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Firestorm_x64
    • Windows 32-bit: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Firestorm
    • Mac: /Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Caches/Firestorm
    • Linux: /home/[USERNAME]/.firestorm_x64/cache
• The Settings folder
  • In its default location, the folder is hidden on most OSs. To find it, you will need to show hidden folders. Now you need to locate the settings folder:
    • Windows 64-bit: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Firestorm_x64
    • Windows 32-bit: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Firestorm
    • Mac: /Users/[YOUR USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/Firestorm
    • Linux: /home/[USERNAME]/.firestorm_x64 (which also contains the cache)
• The Chat Transcripts folder
  • In its default location, this is the same as the Settings folder. If you have relocated your chat files, then note that path.

REBOOT your computer at this time.

Run the viewer to ensure that it is working correctly; do a test of search and voice to ensure that both work, checking that the respective plugins get loaded. LOG OUT of the viewer.

Re-enable your anti-virus software if you disabled it, and run the viewer again, repeating the tests above.

“Camping” is a way of earning a small amount of lindens or other objects by sitting in one spot for a certain amount of time. Here is an example.

• Freebies Warehouse - Clothes and Fitting Rooms -

These are usually fishing games or coin hunting games. You will be paid a small amount (1 linden dollar for 15 minutes for example) to increase traffic. Traffic has a mild influence on search result listings.

The games vary, so be sure to read the “how to play” in the note cards, websites and group descriptions.

In fishing games you will have to purchase baits and a fishing kit and start earning Lindens by fishing.

To do so you go to places that set up a fishing buoy and cast your lines (individual games differ on how you do this, usually some kind of HUD is involved).

Once you have earned enough Lindens in your HUD you can cash out those Lindens either directly from the Game HUD or from a cash terminal the game provides. Some of these games are listed below:

• Fish Hunt: Fish Hunt HQ & Advertising - Fish for Linden Dollars (L$) - More info here.
• Magic Fishing: Magic Fishing HQ & Mall - Advertising -Earn Linden FISH 4 L$ - More info here.
• Virtual Fishing: Fun Games (Earn L$ with Virtual Fishing / Virtual Farming) - More info here.
• Superfish: SuperFish HQ
• Lindo Virtual Flowers: Lindo - Increase Traffic, Earn Linden - More info here. Lindo isn't about fishes but about flowers - essentially it is just the same concept though, you buy seeds, not baits.

In coin hunting games you will run around and collect coins that are scattered across an area. to collect the coins, click them, wait till the countdown is done and then answer a small riddle to proof you're human, once that is done the amount shown on the coin you clicked will be added to your balance.

Cashing out is similar to fishing games, either by the HUD or a Cash Terminal.

Some coin games are shown below:

• Gold Hunt: Fish Hunt HQ & Advertising - Fish for Linden Dollars (L$) - More info here.
• Magic Crystals: Magic Fishing HQ & Mall - Advertising -Earn Linden FISH 4 L$ - More info here.

Many of the companies above will also have other less popular games besides coin hunting and or fishing.

Well those previous games are nice but sometimes they send you to unpleasant places, some are even places you cannot enter (adult regions with gaming areas are notorious for hosting those games). Wouldn't it be great if you could also earn Lindens in a guaranteed safe for work environment?

Well yes, thanks to Linden Labs you can. Hop over to Portal Park and there either enter Paleo Quest or Linden Realms and follow the instructions. You will be given a temporary HUD / attachment while there, no purchase necessary.

Both of these games have a story line and a quest but more important to you I guess is that you can earn Lindens there.

In Linden Realms you have to collect crystals and bring them to the crystal collector machines to redeem them for Lindens. In Paleo Quest it's Dinosaur parts.

The main difference between these games is: While in both games you can die (and believe me, you will, and you will often)

In Linden Realms your crystals are untouched by death, in Paleo Quest you will lose every thing you collected upon death, but you will need way less items for cash-out in Paleo Quest and the competition also isn't as fierce … which ever you prefer is up to you (I highly recommend trying both though, even if it is just to see the beautiful landscapes the Lindens and Moles have built there)

• Portal Park 1

Inworld Employment/Want Ads page for Second Life

More information about making money in SL?

Also, Use the Search Shortcut Ctrl + F to search for employment agencies. There are many groups where you can search for jobs and ask for information from other members of the group. Some places may want to only hire people whose avatar is more than 30 days old.

The easiest way to get L$ is to buy them, either via the viewer, or from the SL dashboard.

Make unique and marketable items, from objects such as clothing or houses, to programming scripts and sell them within the game or at the marketplace.

• Selling Objects
• Second Life Marketplace Policies

You could also become a reseller for fixed commissions; use ctrl f inside Second Life and search for Commission Sales.

There are several reasons why you would want to file a JIRA:

• To request a new feature
• To request an improvement
• To report a bug
• To request support

In order to do anything except view Firestorm issues, you will need an account on Jira. Creating an account is very easy:

1. Log into SecondLife using any viewer.
2. Send an IM to Willow Wilder, Anastasia Horngold, or Whirly Fizzle. In the IM, indicate that you need a Jira account and PROVIDE A WORKING EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR FIRST MESSAGE. The email address is important because it's the only way Jira can contact you. Please don't make us ask you for an email address, as this can slow your request down.
3. If none of these Jira administrators respond (and please remember - they have SL lives too and are not always available), please ask in a Firestorm support group for a moderator to help. The moderator will pass your request on.
4. If you have not received a Jira invitation email in 24 hours, be sure to check your spam filter; then ask a support group moderator.
5. When you receive the Jira invitation email, follow its instructions to create your account. Please use your SL avatar name as your Jira username, and where it asks for your real name, again use your SL avatar name. We do not need your RL name.
6. If you run into any problems signing on, contact a Firestorm Support group moderator and let them know. They will alert a Jira administrator.

NOTE: You are currently reading a wiki page. This is not the Jira web site. Do not attempt to log in to the wiki. Follow the link below to reach the Jira.

No matter what kind of issue you want to create, the process is nearly identical and starts with going to the JIRA Dashboard and clicking the Create Issue link near the top of the page (every page), on the right side of the red menu line. If you don't see that there, you need to log in - click Log In at the top right, enter your username and password and then click Log In.

Clicking Create Issue opens a small box with Project and Issue Type selections. There are a lot of choices, here's a list of the most common:

• Requesting a new feature
  • Set the Project to Firestorm ¹⁾ and the Issue Type to New Feature.
• Requesting an improvement to existing code
  • Set the Project to Firestorm ²⁾ and the Issue Type to Improvement.
• Reporting a bug
  • Set the Project to Firestorm and the Issue Type to Bug.
• Requesting Support
  • Set the Project to Support and the Issue Type to Support Request.

Then click Create. This will bring up the Create Issue page. From here the fields and the information that goes in them are the same regardless of what type of issue you want to create.

• Summary - Enter a brief overview of the problem. You don't have to put everything here, just a few words to summarize the issue.
• Priority - By default this is set to Major, and it can remain that way. If you are reporting an issue that is preventing you from logging on at all with any of our viewers, you can choose Blocker. But if you spotted a typographical error, that's probably something minor or even trivial. If you put in the wrong priority, don't worry, we'll work with you as needed to set it correctly.
• SL Avatar Name - Set this to the name of the avatar that is affected.
• Patch Attached - If you're submitting a patch that would add a new feature, improve on an existing one or correct a bug of some kind, check this box. Otherwise, leave it unchecked.
• Reported In - Select the viewer that you're using. This can either be the one with the problem or some other version.
• Affects Versions - Here you would want to identify all the versions that you know are affected. For example, if you have a problem that shows up in every one of our Release versions of Firestorm, you would want to list them all. If you don't know, then list only the version you're using.
• Environment - This is very important for Support requests and bug reports. We need to know what your system looks like to the viewer. To get this information, open the viewer, click on the Help menu and select About, and then click Copy to Clipboard. Then click into the Environment field in the JIRA page, right-click and choose Paste (or press Ctrl-V).
  Note here that if you're creating anything other than a Support request, this information is visible to everyone. You can delete your location details if you wish.
• Description - Here is where you want to put as many details as you can about the issue. If you're reporting a bug, or if you have a problem that you can reproduce consistently, you want to include the steps you take to reproduce that. Also include details such as whether this affects only one avatar, whether it happens on more than one computer (we'd like system information for each computer in that case) and so on. If you get error messages, be sure to write the exact message (as closely as possible).
• Attachment - Add files that you have that can help further explain the issue, such as images or videos, use the Browse button to add them. Remember that the maximum file size is 10MB, and images must be either JPG or PNG.

Another very useful bit of information is your viewer logs. These can sometimes be very helpful in finding the root cause of a problem and crafting a solution. Logs should be collected after having logged out - or after a crash if that is your issue - and before restarting the viewer. If you log in again then the logs won't have any of the clues needed.

In its default location, the logs folder is hidden on most systems. To find it, you will need to show hidden folders. The logs folder is in:

Compress all the files in the folder named “logs”:

• Windows: Right-click on the folder and choose Send To > Compressed zip file
• Linux Gnome: Right-click on the folder and choose Compress
• Linux shell: tar -cjvf “Viewer_logs.tar.bz2” ./logs/
• Mac: Hold Shift while highlighting the contents of the folder and then Ctrl-click and choose Compress Items

You may want to move this compressed file to your Desktop.

NOTE 1: If you have a large number of accumulated files in your Logs folder, the compressed file may be too large to attach to the Jira ticket. If this happens, delete most of the subfolders starting with “dump,” keeping only the latest one.
NOTE 2: Alternatively, delete the entire Logs folder, log back in on Firestorm and reproduce your problem, log out, then compress the new Logs folder that has now been created.

To attach logs to an issue filed earlier, go to More Actions → Attach Files. Then click Select Files button, locate your compressed file (on your Desktop if you moved it there) and then click Open or OK. You may optionally add a comment at the same time. Finally, click Attach

Now that you have all fields filled, out go back and check to make sure you haven't left anything out and made all the selections needed. Once you are done checking it over click the Create button. If after double checking your ticket you decide not to file the ticket just click the Cancel button.

Once the JIRA issue has been created you'll be shown the issue number. It will be in the form of the project abbreviation, like SUP or FIRE, and a number (example: FIRE-1234). Only you and team members can view your own SUP issues.

You'll also get an email when someone comments, when something is attached or when some other action takes place. Click the link in the email (it looks just like the issue number you got initially) and comment in the issue itself. Do not reply to the email, it will not work.

If you don't get any emails, they could be filtered as spam or the email address you supplied is incorrect. You can confirm your email by going to your profile and then clicking the little edit pencil along the Details line.

Further reading: How to Report Bugs Effectively

In SL, you will find furniture of all kinds, from chair, to couches, bed, beach towels and so on. So, how so you use them?

In some case, when you move your mouse over the furniture, the mouse cursor will change to a chair icon.
If that happens, then simply left click and you will automatically sit on the furniture.
You may get a menu like this, and you can choose how you want to sit by clicking on the buttons.

If the cursor does not change, then try using right click, then select “Sit” from the menu.

Some older furniture requires that you first click the furniture and select a starting animation. It will rez out one or more pose balls.
You can see them in this picture

You then right click on a pose ball, and either a menu will come up, or you will just sit.

Many items of furniture will offer menus which allow you to select from a choice of poses for that furniture. Sometimes you will get a menu as soon as you sit; other times, you can click for a menu after you have sat. And as noted, furniture that uses pose balls generally requires you to click before sitting, to select the starting pose.

In some instances, you will be asked for permission to animate your avatar; you will need to select “Yes” for this, or nothing will happen.

Dance machines at clubs either have a calling post, pose balls somewhere in the ceiling, and now there is a new dance post that lines you and others up in different formations.
Example of the Calling Posts are shown below. The multicolor ones are for couples. This pink one is a new kind, click on it and then you click on a green triangle on the floor. You'll dance in different formations with the other avatars who have clicked it.

If you don't see a calling post, then look up at the ceiling or sky, and you'll see pose balls.
Usually blue has male dances, pink or red has female dances, and multicolored are for couples. (See photo below)

Many Dance clubs have dance pads as well. Right click on the circle (the pad) and when it asks if you'd like to dance, click “yes”. You may or may not get a menu of dances.

As you can see, there are many ways to dance, which may be initially confusing, but you will get the hang of it with practice.

The standalone radar window can be opened either via its toolbar button, or top menu, World → Radar.

Radar is presently sortable by name, age, seen and range. Just click on the appropriate button.

• Bold name indicates a friend, italics indicates the person is muted.
• The untitled column to the right of Name shows whether the person is speaking on voice
• The next column will display a green square if the person is in the same region as you, yellow if in the same parcel (ie, yellow and green, usually, for both same parcel and same region).
• The next shows if the person is typing.
• This column indicates is the person is sitting.
• The next column will show a $ sign if the person has payment info on file, and a $$ for payment info used.
• Then comes Avatar has notes, which will contain an N if you put notes on that person's profile.
• Age indicates the avatar's age in days.
• Seen is the length of time the person has been within radar range.
• Range shows their current distance, in meters. Use of bolding and color distinguishes chat range, shout range, and beyond.
  • Green = Chat Range ( 0-19m )
  • Yellow = Shout Range ( 20-99m )
  • Red = Beyond chat range ( 100m + )
  • Bold = Chat is visible/not blocked by parcel privacy

When you right click on a person's name you get the following options:

• View Profile: Opens a window showing the person's profile.
• Add Friend: This option is only shown if the person is not already on your friends list. It will send a friendship request.
• Remove Friend: This option is only shown if the person is on your friends list. Clicking it will dissolve the friendship. Currently, the other person is not informed, but one copy of your calling card will be removed from the person's Calling Cards folder (a second copy will remain there until/unless they choose to delete it; if the person is logged in at the time, the removed copy will appear in their Trash).
• IM: Opens an IM to the person.
• Call: Initiates a private voice conversation with the other person. Naturally, both need to have voice enabled and functioning.
• Map: If your friend gave you map rights, this item will be enabled. If clicked, it will open the world map and show the person's current location.
• Track: shows a beacon allowing to you locate the person and track their movement. (Versions after 3.2.2 only.)
• Share: If you click this entry, an IM window opens; you can then drag and drop inventory items into it, to give them to the other person.
• Pay: Opens a window, which you can use to pay the other person L$. Some default values are shown, or you can type the number in manually.
• Offer Teleport: Click this if you wish to offer to teleport the person to your present location.
• Teleport To: Teleports you to the other person's location.
• Zoom In: If enabled, moves your camera to view the other person.
• Block/Unblock: aka Mute/Unmute. This mutes the other person, completely blocking them from contacting you. You will not see anything they type in local chat or receive any IMs they might send, and all inventory offers made will be automatically declined. Use with caution; muting a person can also mute their objects, which means that if you make a purchase from them, you are likely to not receive what you paid for.
• Report: Allows you to file an abuse report against the selected avatar. This should not be done lightly and never be misused. Click here for more information on what an abuse report is.
• Freeze: Estate managers/owners can use this to freeze an avatar's movements. This is a tool to be used in cases of griefing and not to be used frivolously.
• Parcel Eject/Ban: If selected, this will eject and ban the avatar from the parcel you are in. You must have the appropriate rights in that parcel or this will not work.
• Estate Kick/Ban: Similar to the above, but operates at the estate level. Therefore, this is only available to estate managers or owners.
• Estate Teleport Home: Selecting this will teleport the avatar to his/her home location. This does not ban them, however, and may fail if they have no home location set or if that location is not accessible (eg, the region is down).

The Sprocket/Gear icon in the Radar window (bottom left, in some skins) has a menu similar to the one you get when right-clicking on an avatar. Here, select a name from the radar list, then click the gear menu for options.

The List icon, to the right of the gear, has the following radar functions:

• Show Minimap above Radar: If enabled, the panel expands upward to show a minimap of the current area.
• Limit Results to Specific Radius: If selected, a slider will appear at the bottom of the window, to the right of the sprocket/gear. Here you may change the range at which the radar is active. This allows you to monitor smaller areas than the radar normally can report. Useful if you only are interested in a parcel rather than an entire region and those adjoining. If you wish to have radar report at max range all the time, it is more efficient to just disable this option.
• Show muted and blacklisted Avatars: If enabled, radar will list people you have muted and/or derendered.
• Radar Name Format: Allows you to select how you want names to be displayed in the radar. Available options depend on how you have preferences set for display names and user names.
• Displayed Columns: You can enable or disable specific columns in the list. Handy if you want to reduce the overall width.
• Color names based on distance: same as the option in Preferences→ Colors -> Name tags.
• Report To: allows you to select whether to show radar notifications to chat or as notification toasts.
• Local chat distance ring in Minimap: Show chat raneg on the minimap. Same as the option in Preferences → Colors -> Minimap.
• Report Entering Draw Range: If enabled, this will report to chat when someone enters your draw distance range.
• Report Leaving Draw Range: If enabled, this will report to chat when someone leaves your draw distance range.
• Report Entering Chat Range: If enabled, this reports to chat whenever someone enters chat range (20m).
• Report Leaving Chat Range: If enabled, this reports to chat whenever someone leaves chat range (20m).
• Report Entering your Region: Enable this to have the radar report people entering the region you are currently in.
• Report Leaving your Region: Enable this to have the radar report people leaving the region you are currently in.
• Report Enter Alerts to Scripts: If enabled, the radar will send an avatar UUID to scripts. For more information, please refer to this page.
• Report Exit Alerts to Scripts: If this is enabled, the radar will send an avatar UUID to scripts. For more information, please refer to this page.
• Enhance Radar with LSL Bridge: ENhance radar functionality via the Bridge. Used to improve distance calculations.

• Open Blocked Residents & Objects:

  This displays the list of people and objects you have blocked (muted).

The '+' icon, to the right to the sprocket/gear, when clicked, will give the following message: “Friends can give permissions to track each other on the map and receive online status updates.” And it will ask you if you want to offer friendship to an Avatar that you highlighted. If they are already on your friends list, the '+' sign will be greyed out.

On the bottom row are the following buttons, providing quick access to functions that are available when right clicking a person's name:

• Profile
• IM
• Call
• Share

There is a helpful tutorial video here.

Radar is presently sortable by name, age, seen and range. Just click on the appropriate button.

* Bold name indicates a friend, italics indicates the person is muted.

• The untitled column to the right of Name shows whether the person is speaking on voice
• The next column will display a green square if the person is in the same region as you, yellow if in the same parcel (ie, yellow and green, usually, for both same parcel and same region).
• The next shows if the person is typing.
• This column indicates is the person is sitting.
• The next column will show a $ sign if the person has payment info on file, and a $$ for payment info used.
• Then comes Avatar has notes, which will contain an N if you put notes on that person's profile.
• Age indicates the avatar's age in days.
• Seen is the length of time the person has been within radar range.
• Range shows their current distance, in meters. Use of bolding and color distinguishes chat range, shout range, and beyond.
  • Green = Chat Range ( 0-19m )
  • Yellow = Shout Range ( 20-99m )
  • Red = Beyond chat range ( 100m + )
  • Bold = Chat is visible/not blocked by parcel privacy

When you right click on a person's name you get the following options:

• View Profile: Opens a window showing the person's profile.
• Add Friend: This option is only shown if the person is not already on your friends list. It will send a friendship request.
• Remove Friend: This option is only shown if the person is on your friends list. Clicking it will dissolve the friendship. Currently, the other person is not informed, but one copy of your calling card will be removed from the person's Calling Cards folder (a second copy will remain there until/unless they choose to delete it; if the person is logged in at the time, the removed copy will appear in their Trash).
• IM: Opens an IM to the person.
• VoiceCall: Initiates a private voice conversation with the other person. Naturally, both need to have voice enabled and functioning.
• Map: If your friend gave you map rights, this item will be enabled. If clicked, it will open the world map and show the person's current location.
• Track: shows a beacon allowing to you locate the person and track their movement. (Versions after 3.2.2 only.)
• Share: If you click this entry, an IM window opens; you can then drag and drop inventory items into it, to give them to the other person.
• Pay: Opens a window, which you can use to pay the other person L$. Some default values are shown, or you can type the number in manually.
• Offer Teleport: Click this if you wish to offer to teleport the person to your present location.
• Teleport To: Teleports you to the other person's location.
• Zoom In: If enabled, moves your camera to view the other person.
• Invite to group: allows you to invite the person to a group you belong to; opens the Groups selector window.
• Get Script Info: Displays the script info for the avatar; requires that the Firestorm bridge be enabled and worn.

• Block/Unblock: aka Mute/Unmute. This mutes the other person, completely blocking them from contacting you. You will not see anything they type in local chat or receive any IMs they might send, and all inventory offers made will be automatically declined. Use with caution; muting a person can also mute their objects, which means that if you make a purchase from them, you are likely to not receive what you paid for.
• Report: Allows you to file an abuse report against the selected avatar. This should not be done lightly and never be misused. Click here for more information on what an abuse report is.
• Freeze: Estate managers/owners can use this to freeze an avatar's movements. This is a tool to be used in cases of griefing and not to be used frivolously.
• Parcel Eject/Ban: If selected, this will eject and ban the avatar from the parcel you are in. You must have the appropriate rights in that parcel or this will not work.
• Estate Kick/Ban: Similar to the above, but operates at the estate level. Therefore, this is only available to estate managers or owners.
• Estate Teleport Home: Selecting this will teleport the avatar to his/her home location. This does not ban them, however, and may fail if they have no home location set or if that location is not accessible (eg, the region is down).
• Derender: Temporarily derenders the avatar.
• Derender + Blacklist: Derenders and blacklists the avatar. This derender is permanent - unless you remove the person from the blacklist; see this page.
• Render Settings: Fly-out menu offers options to Render Normally (default), Do Not Render, Render Fully.

The Sprocket/Gear icon at the top of the Nearby tab has the same functions as the right click menu for individual avatar names.

The List icon, to the right of the gear, has the following radar functions:

• Show Minimap above Radar: If enabled, the panel expands upward to show a minimap of the current area.
• Limit Results to Specific Radius: If selected, a slider will appear at the bottom of the window, to the right of the sprocket/gear. Here you may change the range at which the radar is active. This allows you to monitor smaller areas than the radar normally can report. Useful if you only are interested in a parcel rather than an entire region and those adjoining. If you wish to have radar report at max range all the time, it is more efficient to just disable this option.
• Show muted and blacklisted Avatars: If enabled, radar will list people you have muted and/or derendered.
• Radar Name Format: Allows you to select how you want names to be displayed in the radar. Available options depend on how you have preferences set for display names and user names.
• Displayed Columns: You can enable or disable specific columns in the list. Handy if you want to reduce the overall width.
• Color names based on distance: same as the option in Preferences→ Colors -> Name tags.

• Report To: allows you to select whether to show radar notifications to chat or as notification toasts.
• Local chat distance ring in Minimap: Show chat range on the minimap. Same as the option in Preferences → Colors -> Minimap.
• Report Entering Draw Range: If enabled, this will report to chat when someone enters your draw distance range.
• Report Leaving Draw Range: If enabled, this will report to chat when someone leaves your draw distance range.
• Report Entering Chat Range: If enabled, this reports to chat whenever someone enters chat range (20m).
• Report Leaving Chat Range: If enabled, this reports to chat whenever someone leaves chat range (20m).
• Report Entering your Region: Enable this to have the radar report people entering the region you are currently in.
• Report Leaving your Region: Enable this to have the radar report people leaving the region you are currently in.
• Report Enter Alerts to Scripts: If enabled, the radar will send an avatar UUID to scripts. For more information, please refer to this page.
• Report Exit Alerts to Scripts: If this is enabled, the radar will send an avatar UUID to scripts. For more information, please refer to this page.
• Enhance Radar with LSL Bridge: Enhance radar functionality via the Bridge. Used to improve distance calculations.

• Open Blocked Residents & Objects:

  This displays the list of people and objects you have blocked (muted).

The '+' icon, to the right of the list (radar) icon, when clicked, will give the following message: “Friends can give permissions to track each other on the map and receive online status updates.” And it will ask you if you want to offer friendship to an Avatar that you highlighted. If they are already on your friends list, the '+' sign will be greyed out.

The purpose of this section is to provide help for those new to Second Life, irrespective of the viewer used or their entry point into SL. Given that different viewers are available, where possible, the information given assumes that the official Second Life viewer is the one being used.

If you are looking for information on Firestorm features and functions, click here. If you need help with Firestorm viewer, click here. We also offer classes on how to use the Firestorm viewer. See this page for the schedule and in-world locations.

You can join Second Life via the web page given here:

• Create Second Life Account

If you want to invite friends to join, then please do share the link above with them.

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• March 27th - THEME: PJ Party (remember we are G-rated)

Firestorm 6.4.12 (62831) Release Notes

“n/a” in the table below means “not available”; see the boxed note above.

Firestorm 6.3.9 (58205) Release Notes

“n/a” in the table below means “not available”.

Firestorm 6.3.2 (58052) Release Notes

“n/a” in the table below means “not available”.

Firestorm 6.0.2 (56680) Animesh Release Notes

“n/a” in the table below means “not available”.

Firestorm 6.4.12 (62831) Release Notes

“n/a” in the table below means “not available”; see the boxed note above.

More information about the 64-bit builds can be found here.

Firestorm 6.4.12 (62831) Release Notes

“n/a” in the table below means “not available”; see the boxed note above.

• SLURLs not working in your browser, or choose to open with a different viewer (Windows)
  • SLURL Proxy.zip
  • Instructions are included, but can also be seen on the Wiki here.

• Windows - Quicktime does not need to be installed to play media on Firestorm 5.0.1 or later.

• Mac - Quicktime to play streaming videos. (iTunes is not needed)

for Linux only

• Info for download to play streaming videos. (Please read page for info on installing GStreamer for your particular distribution.)

• Growl for Windows– As of November 2018 this site is dead. Users who already have Growl installed can continue to use it for the time being. Windows users may be able to download a copy from its github release page.

• Mac– This site will lead you to the Mac App Store for downloading. Please note the reviews and the update status of Growl before purchasing; Firestorm cannot guarantee its functionality.

• Linux: Growl is implicit in libnotify, which should come already installed in most distros. However, if you are on a 64-bit Linux, you may need to install the 32-bit version of libnotify. For ubuntu and similar (like mint), run the following command:
  sudo apt-get install libnotify4:i386

Mac drivers are included with OS upgrades. However, to determine what card you have, select “About this Mac” from the Apple menu, then click “More Info”. Under Hardware select Graphics/Displays.

If you are not sure what type of video card you have, use GPU-Z found (Windows only) here. For Linux, in a console use:
lspci | grep VGA

• Latest driverLast checked 08/12/2020 - Windows: 457.51 (2020.12.2) - Linux: 455.23.04 (2020.9.17)

• Latest driverLast checked 08/12/2020 - Windows: Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.11.2 (11/18/2020) - Linux: 20.45 (11/18/2020)
  

• Intel driver download page Intel does not have a universal driver set. Please go to Intel's site and use the auto-detect feature.

https://vcs.firestormviewer.org/

Firestorm 6.4.12 (62831) Release Notes

“n/a” in the table below means “not available”; see the boxed note above.

More information about the 64-bit builds can be found here.

Firestorm 6.4.12 (62831) Release Notes

“n/a” in the table below means “not available”; see the boxed note above.

• SLURLs not working in your browser, or choose to open with a different viewer (Windows)
  • SLURL Proxy.zip
  • Instructions are included, but can also be seen on the Wiki here.

• Windows - Quicktime does not need to be installed to play media on Firestorm 5.0.1 or later.

• Mac - Quicktime to play streaming videos. (iTunes is not needed)

for Linux only

• Info for download to play streaming videos. (Please read page for info on installing GStreamer for your particular distribution.)

• Growl for Windows– As of November 2018 this site is dead. Users who already have Growl installed can continue to use it for the time being. Windows users may be able to download a copy from its github release page.

• Mac– This site will lead you to the Mac App Store for downloading. Please note the reviews and the update status of Growl before purchasing; Firestorm cannot guarantee its functionality.

• Linux: Growl is implicit in libnotify, which should come already installed in most distros. However, if you are on a 64-bit Linux, you may need to install the 32-bit version of libnotify. For ubuntu and similar (like mint), run the following command:
  sudo apt-get install libnotify4:i386

Mac drivers are included with OS upgrades. However, to determine what card you have, select “About this Mac” from the Apple menu, then click “More Info”. Under Hardware select Graphics/Displays.

If you are not sure what type of video card you have, use GPU-Z found (Windows only) here. For Linux, in a console use:
lspci | grep VGA

• Latest driverLast checked 08/12/2020 - Windows: 457.51 (2020.12.2) - Linux: 455.23.04 (2020.9.17)

• Latest driverLast checked 08/12/2020 - Windows: Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.11.2 (11/18/2020) - Linux: 20.45 (11/18/2020)
  

• Intel driver download page Intel does not have a universal driver set. Please go to Intel's site and use the auto-detect feature.

https://vcs.firestormviewer.org/