To change the settings of your browser, select Settings... from the Options menu.

This dialog allows you to choose from several different groups of options that can be adjusted:

• General: allows you to adjust various miscellaneous options, including whether sound is currently enabled, and also your preferred maximum content rating.
  
  
• Performance: allows you to adjust several parameters that can affect the performance (or "frame rate") of Active Worlds.
  
  
• Disk Usage: allows you to control how much disk space Active Worlds uses to cache 3D art to disk.
  
  
• Video: allows you to choose between Direct3D, OpenGL, or software mode for rendering 3D graphics.
  
  
• Downloads: allows you to limit the maximum size of certain types of files that are downloaded from the web.
  
  
• Privacy: allows you to limit certain types of information that other Active Worlds users can learn about you..
  
  
• Chat: allows you to set various options related to avatars and chatting with other users.
  
  
• Web: allows you to control how Active Worlds displays web pages.
  
  
• Advanced: allows you to adjust certain advanced options, including which message file is currently in use by the Active Worlds browser to display certain text in the correct language.