Configuration Mania reveals hidden Firefox settings

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Configuration Mania reveals hidden Firefox settings

by Brad Linder Mar 14th 2008

Firefox has a ton of customization options. So many, in fact, that listing them all would make the Firefox Tools menu resemble War and Peace. So Mozilla hides some of the options you might not need to change as often away so that you can only access them by typing "about:config" into the location bar. The problem is that many users don't even know about about:config, and once you discover it, it's still not clear what all of the settings do.

Configuration Mania is a Firefox add-on that organizes and displays many of the options that are normally only available through about:config. Here are just a few o the things you can change using Configuration Mania:

Location bar auto-complete behavior
Default domain guessing behavior (should Firefox add www or .com when you type a word into the location bar?)
Tab behavior (where to display the close button, default tab width, etc)
Hide the Go button next to location bar
Change your user agent
Adjust cache settings

Configuration Mania is available for Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 beta.

[via gHacks]

Tags: add-on, config, configuration-mania, extension, firefox

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mark said 4:59PM on 3-14-2008

Nice utility, but they really need to get someone to go through and fix all the grammar mistakes. It's full of them. Once Par Session? The name seems a little silly too, but that's just my opinion.

packetsniffer said 9:41PM on 3-14-2008

Programmers spend so much time coding and IMing in 1337speak that they forget everything about English they learned in high school.

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