Posts Tagged ‘about config’

Backup Firefox Preferences

Posted by Jason in Firefox on January 15th, 2008

You may not have realised this until now but has its own version of the Registry, where all your preferences are stored. In the browser, it can be accessed by typing in the address bar about:

But what, in the future, if you have to re-install from scratch? You may have spent a long time tweaking to get it the way you want it and if you subsequently lose all your preferences, then you would have to start again from the beginning. This would throw me into a fit of rage but I discovered recently there is a way to make a of your “about:” preferences in case anything goes wrong. (more…)

Easy to make firefox run 10 times faster

Posted by Jason in Firefox on January 3rd, 2008

For me is the best browser. Firefox is , more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the . Here’s some tips how to up your 10 times .

Type about: into the browser and hit enter. After that, scroll down and found this entries and setup like this: (more…)

Making Firefox Handle Multiline Pasted

Posted by Jason in Firefox on December 15th, 2007

Andrei provides an excellent tip for users in Pasting Wrapped URLs:

Here’s another / tip: if you copy a URL wrapped over multiple lines from somewhere and try to paste it into the address bar, you will end up only with the first line of it. To fix it, go to about: and change editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines setting to 3 or add: (more…)

The secrets of about:config - part1

Posted by Jason in Firefox on August 5th, 2007

has garnered a reputation for being an enormously customizable program, both through its add-on architecture and its internal settings. In fact, many of ’s settings aren’t exposed through the Tools > Options menu; the only way to change them is to edit them manually. In this article, we’ll explore some of the most useful settings that you can change on your own and that aren’t normally available through the program’s graphical interface.

The closest analogy to how manages its internal settings is the Registry. Each setting, or preference, is given a name and stored as a string (text), integer (number) or Boolean (true/false) value. However, doesn’t keep its settings in the registry, but in a file called prefs.js. You can edit prefs.js directly, but it’s often easier to change the settings through the browser window. (more…)