In the spirit of my Firefox extensions , and since I just went through this exercise today, here are the Firefox preferences customizations that I currently use. At least some of these are only present in relatively bleeding edge Firefox builds, and you will need to use
about:config
to enable at least some of them.
(I have not put everything in here, just the stuff that I always forget and that irritates me when it's missing.)
| browser. backspace_action | 1 | Scroll the page up on backspace. This matches the traditional Unix behavior of Netscape 4, which I am very very used to by now. (This is only present in recent Firefox builds; before that Backspace always went back in the history. As a result, my own personal Firefox build has this chainsawed out via more direct methods.) |
| browser. blink_allowed | false | I do not want
<blink>
to do anything. |
| browser. download. manager. retention | 0 | 'Do not remember my downloads', ie 'do not clutter the download dialog with stuff I have already deleted'. I always have to remember that this setting is in the Privacy section of Preferences, unlike the other download settings. |
| browser. enable_automatic_image_resizing | false | I do not want my images to be resized into illegibility in order to fit in my current browser window, thanks. |
| browser. formfill. enable | false | Also in the Privacy settings, although I consider it to be another 'do not annoy me thanks bye' setting. |
| browser. send_pings | false | See here for an explanation. |
| browser. urlbar. matchOnlyTyped | true | Ideally I would be able to turn off URL bar autocompletion entirely; however, this does not seem possible in current Firefox builds. Making it only autocomplete things I've explicitly entered into the URL bar is the best I can do. |
| extensions. checkCompatibility | false | This is necessary to install several of my Firefox extensions in current Firefox trunk builds, even with the Nightly Tester Tools installed. |
In general, the MozillaZine Knowledge Base has a very large set of pages giving lots of information about Firefox preferences; you can start here and then follow their links.