Firefox notes

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Type about:config into the address bar or get Configuration Mania.

about:config

Search for these options and modify or toggle them:

about:robots
security.dialog_enable_delay = 0
browser.tabs.closeButtons = 3 # put tab close button on toolbar
browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo = 30
browser.search.openintab = True # Searches in search bar open in new tab instead of current window 
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = True # I can't decide which way I like better...
layout.spellcheckDefault = 2 # Spellcheck one-line text fields as well as standard text area fields

view_source.editor.external = True
view_source.editor.path = /usr/bin/gvim

These options may need to be created:

content.switch.threshold = 1000000

Interesting... I need to research these more:

network.protocol-handler

Firefox 3 unsigned SSL cert handling was thought up by an asshole

Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer

First, I understand what certs are for. There should be an expert option to eliminate the extreme verbosity and all the button clicks. I just don't understand how the Firefox team could do this to us. Then they have the nerve to try to explain to us how certs work and how we don't really want to accept them without a trusted CA signing... blah... blah... blah... Yes, that's what you tell the naive users. Most people complaining are developers. Probably 99% of web developers out there use self-signed certs for their own work and testing.

Someone has a Firefox 3 Add-on that fixes this. Check out MitM Me. Now I gotta go look up the internal config settings that will lobotomize Firefox...

--root 19:53, 3 January 2009 (PST)