Web Nudge

If you are a Firefox hacker or even a simple hacker you surely know what I'm going to talk about: The about: page on Firefox! If you are using Firefox (that don't works for other browsers), you can open up this page. You'll find just the firefox logo! This isn't all, some other links (also from the about: page) like contributors, licensing information and build configuration.



First let me list all (That I know, may be there's more) the about: pages

• about: (Main page, have nothing to do with it)
• about:credits (Those seems to be people contributing in the FireFox make of)
• about:license (The FireFox browser license)
• about:buildconfig (The build platform and compiler version)
• about:config (FireFox settings, you can tweak them, I'll explain how)
• about:mozilla (A Firefox easter egg! Discover it yourself)
• about:robots (A funny description about robots!)
• About kitchensink (Without :, hey that's online only)
  

All those page, you don't have what to do with them, only one! about:config, you can customize FireFox as you like with this page.
I'll give you a short example, if you want more check out this article.

Now let's more on to the simple example, it's something that always upset me when using Firefox. When I want to change some words on the URL bar, it selects it all and drive me crazy... you know just try your self, this blink or I don't know what, but really not intelligent.
A simple tweak in FireFox will resolve this problem.

First access the about:config page and you should see this screen; hey be careful, if you change something important Firefox may blow and stop running. So, tweak AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Ok the filter text box is so useful, type : browser.urlbar.clickselectsall
If it's in bold (so it's false) and when you click on the url bar, the url won't be selected; if it's true turn it to false and the bar url won't select all the url when you click.

Here you get it fixed!
Here's an article that shows more FireFox tweaks, but be careful and nice browsing.

Post Update:
The last 2 about: are from our intelligent reader Dievochka

Posted by Omar Abid at 6:53 AM |    
Labels: blogger, firefox, review, web 2.0