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Prefsearch Searches And Explains Firefox’s About:config Settings

By Kevin Purdy on July 30, 2009 at 9:30 PM

Firefox: There are a lot of great little configuration tweaks one can pull off by editing Firefox’s about:config settings, but only if one knows what those sometimes cryptically-named settings do. The Prefsearch extension automates Google searches for each setting.

That may not sound like much of a help, compared to linking each entry to, say, the MozillaZine Knowledge Base, but a Google search for an about:config setting often reveals some pretty helpful, plain-English explanation of what the setting really does in common use, and what people have thought of the change after it’s switched. That’s because those searches often pull up form posts, help sites, and, er, Firefox-obsessed blogs with some helpful breakdowns of the nitty-gritty of each setting.

If you’re frequently looking for the no-extension-needed fix for your Firefox needs, Prefsearch might be one extension worth installing. Free to download, works wherever Firefox does.

Prefsearch [Firefox Add-Ons]

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  • Kevin Purdy
    July 31, 2009 at 2:28 AM

    @jeejum: Bingo ;) Shiki-colors in Ubuntu, set to the blue theme.

  • paintbox
    July 31, 2009 at 12:59 AM

    MozillaZine Knowledge Base. That's the one I go to first. Their recommendations for settings are more sober than... other places. The Firefox Tweak Guide is also quite good. Google/Bing either one and you're there soon enough.

    paintbox

  • jeejum
    July 30, 2009 at 11:56 PM

    @KevinHippolyta:

    It's not an FF theme in particular, but native GTK skinning on Linux, just as Firefox in Windows inherits the appearance of the visual style. The theme in question is Shiki-Colors, I believe.

    jeejum

  • ean5533
    July 30, 2009 at 10:58 PM

    @KevinHippolyta:
    Assuming you're talking about the black/blue context menu --

    That's actually not a firefox-themed widget, but a widget themed by your window manager. For example, running in Windows XP will show a different context menu than running in Windows Vista, and different than if you're running OS X or Linux.

    If he's running Linux, that looks a bit like GNOME's "Dusk" theme to me.

    ean5533

  • KevinHippolyta
    July 30, 2009 at 10:42 PM

    Hey what FF theme are you using in that picture?

    KevinHippolyta

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