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Useful about:config settings

Izheil edited this page Apr 27, 2020 · 14 revisions

About:config settings

Here you can find some useful settings to change in About:config page.

The most relevant to note should be:

  • Enable the use of userChrome.css and userContent.css -> toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true

Some Tab Mix Plus features

Most of the functions of TMP can be replaced with CSS or JS like multi-row tabs, keep the close button on tabs always visible, focus tab on hover, and color-coding tabs when they are loaded, unloaded (CSS Tweaks section, inside Tab-related-Tweaks.css), or through extensions like Tab Session Manager and Undo Closed Tab. For the ones that can't, here are some about:config settings that fix a few of them:

  • To keep FF open even after closing the last tab -> browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false.
  • To open a search result typed on the URL bar on a new tab -> browser.urlbar.openintab to true.
  • To open a search result typed on the search bar on a new tab -> browser.search.openintab to true.
  • To open bookmarks on a new tab instead of the current tab -> browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInTabs to true.
  • To force popups on new tabs instead of windows -> browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction to 0 (should be 2 by default).
  • Open related tabs (the ones you open) as the last tab in the tab bar -> browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent to false.

Other features

  • Disable "Enable remote debugging" prompt when accessing the browser developer tools -> devtools.debugger.prompt-connection to false
  • Opened new tabs to appear at the end of the tab list (instead of next to current active tab) -> browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent to false
  • Disable reader mode -> reader.parse-on-load.enabled to false
  • Disable Pocket -> extensions.pocket.enabled to _false
  • Enable ICC v4 color management -> gfx.color_management.enablev4 to true
  • Enable color management everywhere -> gfx.color_management.mode to true

Cache path

If you have an SSD and want to change the cache folders somewhere else, you should add these settings with the new path:

  • browser.cache.disk.parent_directory
  • browser.cache.disk.parent_directory

Privacy

These are all telemetry related.

  • browser.ping-centre.telemetry to false
  • toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled to false
  • toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled to false
  • toolkit.telemetry.enabled to false
  • toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled to false
  • toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled to false
  • toolkit.telemetry.reportingpolicy.firstRun to false
  • toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled to false
  • toolkit.telemetry.unified to false
  • toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled to false
  • experiments.enabled to false
  • experiments.activeExperiment to false
  • experiments.supported to false
  • datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled to false
  • nsITelemetry.canRecordBase to false
  • nsITelemetry.canRecordExtended to false
  • browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry to false
  • browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry to false
  • extensions.screenshots.upload-disabled to true
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