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How do you hide the Extended Validation text in Firefox?

Certain sites have Extended Validation certificates. On top of the normal lock symbol, Firefox also shows the Organization name next to the lock symbol in green text. This gives users a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling knowing that nothing can happen to…
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What exactly does the number listed under "places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages" represent in Firefox?

The entry places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages in the Firefox about:config page is supposed to set the amount of time that Firefox remembers pages in it's history. However, the current default number I am seeing here is 84175. What…
Braden Dodge
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What are all the about: pages of Mozilla Firefox?

Possible Duplicate: Reference for all “about”/“chrome” address bar strings for Firefox and Chrome I know about:home, about:robots, about:config and some others, but is there somewhere a list of ALL about: pages of Firefox? I googled but didn´t…
LostPhysx
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How to Set Small Tab Size to Minimize Tab Scroll Buttons in Firefox

Both Chrome and Firefox introduced the Search tabs list menu. In my view, this completely negates the need for the (very annoying imo) tab-scrolling feature of Firefox (i.e. when you have what they deem to be too many tabs for the view, < and >…
YorSubs
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How to disable drag&drop of links by default?

I would like to disable the default behavior of Firefox which causes links to be drag&drop elements because it prevents selecting part of the text with the mouse in order to copy it. I never drag&dropped a link on purpose, the feature just causes…
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Firefox config - What is the font.internaluseonly.changed setting for?

In Firefox config (about:config) I have a value highlighted in bold: font.internaluseonly.changed user set boolean true What is this setting for and what does the value mean? Firefox 40.0
BadHorsie
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How to prevent Firefox from closing when app tabs are open?

Is there any way, via about:config or otherwise, to prevent Firefox from closing when app tabs are open? I'm using Firefox 5.0.1 and 8.0a1 nightly.
Jags FL
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Minimum tab width in Firefox Quantum

Firefox Quantum changed the minimum width of Tabs, previous versions of Firefox had it set to a greater value. (*minimum tab width - when you have a lot of open tabs they shrink to some predefined minimum width). How do I increase this predefined…
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What is "dom.push.userAgentID" preference?

I have a modified dom.push.userAgentID preference, type is "string" (I won't share the value, may be unique), in about:config. I certainly haven't modified or created this manually, but an extension may have created the preference.
user781124
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Old settings for Firefox Sync in Firefox 29

Is there a way to configure Firefox 29 to work with an self-hosted fsyncms-Server by editing e.g. some settings in about:config? I can use my server by installing an older version of Firefox and configuring sync there. After sync is configured, I…
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Re-enable animated GIF display in Firefox?

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.17. I had disabled image looping (GIF animation) so that images only looped once. Now I want to turn the default looping behavior back on, so I reset image.animation_mode back to normal in the about:config window. But this…
David R Tribble
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Where is the about:config box in Thunderbird 17?

Where is the about:config box in Thunderbird 17? I have looked under the Tools Menu and it doesn't seem to be there. Is there a way to bring up a URL box in Thunderbird I don't know about?
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How would I go about modifying Firefox's about:config settings via an external .bat file?

I would like to change the value of a particular about:config property via a script external to Firefox. Have any of you tried this before? I've read that you can modify "prefs.js", but I was wondering if there was a simpler, more correct approach.…
Matt Refghi
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How to stop firefox from mangling domain names?

When I type in http://example/ firefox rewites the url to http://www.example.com/. Is there any way to fix this behavior without recompiling firefox? I suspect something in about:config will help, but I am not sure what, and I'm somewhat leery of…
David X
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Texts without sub-pixel rendering in Firefox and its variants (Librewolf, Tor, etc) look blurry in LCD monitors

This problem occurs for tabs font as well as font in Library manager: Can you test and confirm it? Is there any solution? Can I force enable sub-pixel rendering? Things I tried before: disabling Fingerprinting. changing these settings below in…
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