Last night I was at the 2009 Plone Conference in Budapest, and got chatting to Alexander Limi, the man in charge of UI design in Firefox 4. He revealed a little secret….
about:config
Type that little gem into your Firefox address bar and it lets you in to a whole world of hidden settings. The first thing I looked for was a setting to stop the address bar from selecting the whole address when you click on it. I love the awesome bar (I know some people hate it, but I actually like it), but the annoying select all on-click nonsense that arrived as part of it has made me swear on a daily basis. Until now.
Search for this in the about:config settings
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll
Awesome.
On a similar subject there’s some seriously awesome stuff coming in Firefox 4, check out Alexander Limi’s blog at http://limi.net/.
Here’s some other cool stuff:
browser.search.openInTab – causes your Google search box to open the search results in a new tab.
It seems that you can restrict the awesome bar matches to:
Just urls – by preceding your text with @
Just pag titles – by preceding your text with #
Just bookmarked pages – by preceding your text with *
Search for dom.disable_window_open_feature to see various settings to do with stopping sites from removing the address bar/buttons from windows.