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Debug Settings

Please do not alter debug settings unless you know what you are doing. If the viewer “breaks”, you own both parts.

Some settings may have side effects, and if you forget what you changed, the only way to revert to the default behavior might be to manually clear all settings.
Also note that the settings given here are outdated; newer settings are not listed.

Debug settings are accessed, in Firestorm, from the Advanced menu. If you cannot see this menu in the menu bar, press Ctrl-Alt-D. Alternately, you can bring up debug settings by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S.

Alphabetical Listing - Global Settings

Alphabetical Listing - Per Account Settings

The following is a list of default settings used by various viewer modes:

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About Land - Options Tab

This tab controls permissions and restrictions on the parcel for users other than the owner. Generally the parcel owner keeps full abilities on the parcel.

Allow Other Residents To:

Edit Terrain: If enabled, this grants the ability to any other resident to edit the terrain in the parcel. Do not grant lightly!

Fly: Allow residents on the land to fly, if unchecked residents will notice their “fly” button has been disabled.

Create Objects, Object Entry, Run Scripts: These permissions are divided into “All Residents”, and “Group”, which refers to the group set on the General tab. Object Entry refers to objects not attached to an avatar, such as a bullet fired from a gun. Run Scripts refers to all scripts, whether in attached or detached objects.

Land Options:

Safe (no damage): If checked, disables combat ¹⁾.

No Pushing: If checked, then pushes from objects is disabled. Pushing another avatar is often used to annoy them, and most regions have turned on this item to prevent it.

Show Place in Search: If checked, the parcel will be listed in the Search window with the name and description from the General tab, and the snapshot below from this tab. A fee of L$30 per week is charged for listing in search, and optionally a category can be chosen from the dropdown menu on this item.

Allow Residents on other parcels to - See and chat with residents on this parcel: If enabled, people outside the parcel will be able to see and chat with those inside the parcel; if disabled, anyone in the parcel will be invisible to those outside, no matter how close they may be.

Moderate Content: This is the parcel rating.

Category: Select the category of parcel from the drop-down.

Snapshot: This image will be displayed in the “Search” results and landmarks created for the parcel. Clicking the image area will open the “Pick: Texture” floating window so that you can choose the image to display. Alternately, your chosen image can be dragged from your inventory to the image area.

Landing Point: Lists the coordinates of the landing point if set, or (none) if not set. The set button will set the landing point to your current avatar position, and the clear button will unset it.

Teleport Routing: Determines where teleport landings are allowed for other users. Blocked means that teleports into the parcel are not allowed; Landing point indicates that teleports are limited to the landing point set above; Anywhere means that teleports may arrive at any location on the parcel.

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Second Life has a built-in health system, activated when Safe (no damage) is disabled. Scripted objects can be programmed to inflict damage on participants; when your health drops to 0%, you're teleported home. Unlike other virtual environments, death incurs no permanent penalties aside from a brief inconvenience. Non-consensual combat can be a violation of the Community Standards. Residents have also created their own combat systems when the built-in one was found lacking.

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Finding a Missing Window

So you find yourself suddenly missing a window, perhaps inventory, or chat, or the edit window… How to find it?

Close all other windows, to make sure it isn't hiding under one of them.

Hide the chat bar: Preferences→ Chat -> Typing→ Autohide main chatbar to see if the window is under there.

Compress all the buttons on the bottom toolbar to the right.
Alternately, drag the toolbar buttons from their present location onto another toolbar;
(Reminder: there are three available toolbars: bottom of the screen, right side, and left side. Buttons are dragged by left clicking, holding the left mouse button down, and dragging.)

Go to Preferences→ User Interface → 2D Overlay, and lower the UI Scaling slider. The default setting is 1.0. You may find that setting it lower, temporarily, will reveal the missing window. If you find the missing window, move it to the center of the screen, then reset UI Scaling to 1.0 or your preferred value.

Try to ensure that the missing window is closed. Then open Debug Settings via the Advanced menu (press Ctrl-Alt-D to enable Advanced, if it isn't already). Then locate the pair values for the default window position, for the window that is “missing”. Consult the table below for the names of these settings. Set both values to 0 (zero), then relog.

Window	Settings names
Appearance	floater_pos_appearance_x	floater_pos_appearance_y
Area Search	floater_pos_area_search_x	floater_pos_area_search_y
Avatar	floater_pos_avatar_x	floater_pos_avatar_y
Build/Edit	floater_pos_build_x	floater_pos_build_y
Contacts	floater_pos_imcontacts_x	floater_pos_imcontacts_y
Camera Controls	floater_pos_camera_x	floater_pos_camera_y
Conversations	floater_pos_fs_im_container_x	floater_pos_fs_im_container_y
Destinations	floater_pos_destinations_x	floater_pos_destinations_y
Hover Height	floater_pos_edit_hover_height_x	floater_pos_edit_hover_height_y
IM window	floater_pos_fs_impanel_x	floater_pos_fs_impanel_y
Inspect	floater_pos_fs_inspect_x	floater_pos_fs_inspect_y
Inventory	floater_pos_inventory_x	floater_pos_inventory_y
Mini Map	floater_pos_mini_map_x	floater_pos_mini_map_y
Move Controls	floater_pos_moveview_x	floater_pos_moveview_y
Nearby Chat	floater_pos_fs_nearby_chat_x	floater_pos_fs_nearby_chat_y
Notecard	floater_pos_preview_notecard_x	floater_pos_preview_notecard_y
Notifications	floater_pos_notification_well_window_x	floater_pos_notification_well_window_y
Parcel Details (About Land)	floater_pos_about_land_x	floater_pos_about_land_y
People	floater_pos_people_x	floater_pos_people_y
Phototools	floater_pos_phototools_x	floater_pos_phototools_y
Profile	floater_pos_floater_profile_x	floater_pos_floater_profile_y
Preferences	floater_pos_preferences_x	floater_pos_preferences_y
Quickprefs	floater_pos_quickprefs_x	floater_pos_quickprefs_y
Radar	floater_pos_fs_radar_x	floater_pos_fs_radar_y
Region Details	floater_pos_region_info_x	floater_pos_region_info_y
Search	floater_pos_search_x	floater_pos_search_y
World map	floater_pos_world_map_x	floater_pos_world_map_y

If you already have created a backup of your settings, then try a restore of those settings as explained here.

Should none of these work, then you will have to wipe settings, as explained on this page.

See this page for documentation on Firestorm 4.6.9 (42969) and earlier.

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Firestorm Gateway Team Members

Management

Gateway Manager	Flossy Andrew
Gateway HR Manager (FSG Helpers)	Amalia Broome
Gateway Assistant Managers	Kio Feila Dorrie Bellman Coral Sharpshire
Merchandise Manager
Gateway Estate Management	Jessica Lyon Flossy Andrew Nisa Maverick Whirly Fizzle Lette Ponnier Miro Collas

The Team

Magus (alexegram)
Amalia Broome	HR Manager
Arenae Rosewood
Birdie Fairymeadow
Bluezy Bleac	Assistant Manager. French, German, Dutch
ChuckPC
Coral Sharpshire	Assistant Manager
CrizTna Follet
Dorrie Bellman	Assistant Manager
Ed Merryman
Eternal Mode
Flossy Andrew
Time ™ (fouhasai)
ღHillyღ™ (hillbilly.souther)
Jessica Lyon
Kio Feila	Assistant Manager
KirinGale
Kitty Beery	Dutch
Lilly Asterix (cardinalstein)
:3 (losangelesgraff)
Mac (macmaccee)
Merlin (merlin527)
Miro Collas
Pill Collins
Pim Peccable
Sayre Avonbourne (sayreavondale)
Scuzzy Avonbourne
Sillydream
Silver Frakture	German
Sixy (sixylips)
Skyspinner Soulstar
SmellieKelly
Tracy Argus

Roleplay Team

Roleplay Manager	Teresa Firelight
Roleplay Leaders	Starwolff2000 Pim Peccable

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For New Residents

Joining Second Life

You can join SecondLife 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.

Once Joined, In-World Locations

Firestorm Social
Firestorm Gateway & Support Regions. Welcoming & Helping new residents into Second Life and oldies with Second Life. Social Area, RP, Sandbox, Freebie's, Classes, tutorials, games & lots of experiences to explore. Helpers always available to assist.
Firestorm Aerodrome
Flyable airplanes, helicopters, skydiving, scuba diving, boats and JetSki's.
Firestorm Dow Forest
Firestorm Golf by CrowleyCorp
Firestorm Lodge
Firestorm Sandbox
Firestorm U.S.S. Gateway - Sci-Fi RP Area.
The Ghost Town by MadPea
Immersive and interactive adventure game.

We also offer classes on how to use the viewer. See this page for the schedule and in-world locations.

Getting Help

Please refer to this page for the many ways in which you can get help with using Firestorm.

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Clicking on a SLURL Doesn't Activate the Viewer

Windows

Windows only: We have now have a software that makes it very easy to adjust your SLURL settings, in order to open any viewer you have installed.
See here for details

Other suggestions below.

General Windows Instructions

Open Default Programs by clicking the Start button and then clicking Default Programs.
Click Associate a file type or protocol with a program.
Click the file type or protocol that you want the program to act as the default for.
Click Change program.

FireFox

In Firefox, goto Tools → Options → Applications Tab and scroll to Secondlife. Look to see if Firestorm is listed, if not, select “other”, then browse your hard drive to find the Firestorm.exe, click on it, select Open, then click Ok. (Reference: Applications panel—Set how Firefox handles different types of files.)

Download and install the regular SL viewer - but don't run it.

Try this if the above does not work:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gaming-games-multimedia-entertainment/104105-how-firefox-calls-secondlife-slurls.html

Internet Explorer, Chrome and Safari

Download and install the regular SL viewer - but don't run it.

Chrome

If none of the above works, then try this as a last resort fix. Go into Chrome settings, the advanced Settings, at the bottom, then Reset Chrome. Please note that this will wipe all your customized Chrome settings.

Mac OS X

The application that handles a URL is a system-wide setting, not tied to any one browser. You can change the setting like this:

Download RCDefaultApp 2.1 from the RubiCode download page. Yes, it really will run on current versions of OS X, even though it also runs all the way back to 10.2.
Install it according to the instructions int he README file.
Go to the Apple menu at the top left. Select System Preferences… then Default Apps (near the bottom), then the URLs tab. Now scroll down until you see secondlife in the list on the left. Click on it.
Now select the application you wish to use.

linux

Open Firefox and in the address bar type in “about:config”
Now right click anywhere on that page and choose New and then Boolean to create a new Boolean entry, when prompted for the name of the entry enter “network.protocol-handler.expose.secondlife” (without quotes) then set the entry to 'false', click ok and your just about done.
Now the next time you click a slurl you will be prompted to choose an application to open it with, just browse to the folder you installed Firestorm into and select the file named 'firestorm' (a shell script file). Then before you click Ok, make sure you check the little box to make Firefox remember your choice on how to open slurls. ¹⁾

Information gleaned from this page.

Work Around

There is an alternative to clicking a link in a browser to have it pass control to the viewer. Some actually find this work around to be faster and use it normally:

right click the SLURL link in your web browser and copy to clipboard
in the viewer, paste the link into your local chat and hit Enter.
open local chat history
click the link shown there; you will be shown the location info with the option to teleport direct to it.

Clicking on a link in the viewer doesn't open a browser

The fist thing to check is the viewer settings: Preferences → Network & Files → Connections, in the Web Browser section, make sure Use My Browser… is selected.

If you get an error saying that no program is associated with the action, or that it doesn't know how to hand that action, make sure your computer settings show that there is a default web browser. An easy way to tell is to open your browser; if you are asked to make it the default, then you need to do so.

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With thanks to Eclair Mekanic.

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If you are reverting to an earlier version than you currently have installed, or need to Clean Install as part of a Troubleshooting procedure, please click here.

Before continuing it is recommended that you Backup Settings. You may skip this step if you choose, however, if there is a problem during or after the update and you do not have a Back-Up then you could lose any changes you have made to your settings.

Updating Your Viewer

Updating your viewer need not be a daunting task. The Method explained below is for a straightforward Update. DO NOT follow this method if you are reverting to an earlier version.

Step 1: Remove Application

For Windows

Ideally, use the Programs & Features Control Panel [Vista, Win7, Win8, Win10], or Add/Remove Programs Control Panel [XP] to remove the Firestorm application. If you have a Firestorm folder in your Start Menu, there may be an Uninstall link there (32-bit Firestorm only).

For Mac

Navigate to Applications and trash the Firestorm App.

For Linux

The Firestorm install directory will be wherever you extracted the download archive. Typically this will be in your home directory somewhere, such as ~/Phoenix-Firestorm_*. Delete this directory and everything inside it.

If you used the install script as root, look in your /opt directory. You will need to su root or sudo rm to delete the firestorm directory there.

Step 2: Install Firestorm

Having done all those steps, you may now install Firestorm. Installing Firestorm is done in pretty much the same way as any other application on your computer.

Get the installer: For the current release, go to the Downloads page.

For Windows

Run the downloaded installer. The 32-bit installer will offer you the chance to change the destination directory; the 64-bit installer shows the destination when you click the Options button.
The installer will create a shortcut icon on the desktop.

Note: The 32-bit installer offers you an option to start the viewer when it's done, and you should choose No. Choosing Yes tends to cause problems for some people, especially if they restore during that session. The shortcut is the preferred way to launch the viewer.

For Mac

Find the .dmg file you just downloaded and double-click it to mount it. Then drag the Firestorm app icon into your Applications folder. More detailed instructions can be found here

For Linux

Extract the downloaded tar.bz2 or tar.xz into any directory and run the firestorm script inside that directory to launch it. You can optionally install by running the install script inside that directory. And you can optionally create a desktop launcher. Refer to the README files for more information.
If you are installing on a 64-bit Linux system, you will need to install some 32-bit libraries. Refer to this page for guidance on required compatibility libraries.
If you use the Nautilus File Manager and double clicking the firestorm launch script opens the script in an editor, you will need to modify how Nautilus handles scripts.

Flash Player

It must be noted that a different flash player is required for different versions of Firestorm. Version 4.7.7 and newer requires flash player for Opera and Chromium. Go here, select your operating system, then select the appropriate flash player.

Important Notes

With a new version comes new code, new settings etc. Your settings can become corrupt and important information can become “scrambled”. When installing a different version of the viewer, using settings from the previously installed version may cause undesirable behavior in the viewer. If you experience issues after performing a straight update please Back-Up Your Settings and then Clear Your Settings.
If you are experiencing issues after Updating via this Method you may be asked to perform a full Clean Install by our Support Team.
If you have heavily modified settings and you are concerned that they may cause an issue on updating and/or restoring them you can take the precautionary measuring of Filing a Jira and attaching a zip file of your settings. *Please Note*: if taking this step please allow a minimum of 72 hours for this to be checked and responded to.

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