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Useful about:config settings
Izheil edited this page Jul 1, 2021
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Here you can find some useful settings to change in About:config
page.
The most relevant to note should be:
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Enable the use of
userChrome.css
anduserContent.css
->toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
to true
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.
- Disable "Enable remote debugging" prompt when accessing the browser developer tools ->
devtools.debugger.prompt-connection
to false - Disable reader mode ->
reader.parse-on-load.enabled
to false - Disable Pocket ->
extensions.pocket.enabled
to false - Disable Media keys (the pause/stop/play buttons next to the volume controls when watching a video or audio, as well as pausing video/audio in firefox with media keys) ->
media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled
to false - Disable service workers (used for website notifications mostly) ->
dom.serviceWorkers.enabled
to false - Enable ICC v4 color management ->
gfx.color_management.enablev4
to true - Enable color management everywhere ->
gfx.color_management.mode
to true - Prevent "other bookmarks" folder to appear to the right when it's not empty ->
browser.toolbars.bookmarks.2h2020
to false - Prevent bookmark folders in the bookmarks bar to close after opening a bookmark ->
browser.bookmarks.openInTabClosesMenu
to false - Force enable "Recommended by Pocket" despite not having Pocket enabled, or not being in the supported regions for it (U.S., Canada, U.K. and Germany) to show ->
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.system.topstories
to true (You can disable it in the same manner setting it to false)
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.offline.parent_directory
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.server
to "" (By default is https://incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org) -
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 -
extensions.experiments.enabled
to false -
datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled
to false -
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry
to false -
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry
to false