428582 - KB article: about:config

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(support.mozilla.org :: Knowledge Base Articles, task)

Description

[myles7897]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13
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An article that list everything in about:config and explains them.



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[[:Cww]]

Is this a good idea?  I'm sorta against it since I don't really think users should be mucking about in about:config

And article that explains how to get to about:config and what it does may be a good idea, though since a lot of other articles use it and a central location with screenshots may not be a bad idea.

(One titled changing a user preference in about:config or something, with screenshots)

Comment 2

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

Open this discussion in mozilla.support.planning.
It was briefly discussed last summer, while we were putting together our list of initial articles.
<http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.planning/browse_frm/thread/ce7563fc228a0959>

It's worth bringing up now.

Comment 3

[myles7897]

This subject is briefly described here:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Editing+configuration+files#about_config

Comment 4

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

WONTFIXing per newsgroup discussion

Comment 5

[David Tenser [:djst]]

The discussion hasn't ended, though.

Comment 6

[Ray Kiddy]

FYI, there are articles which tell people to change some preference in the about:config page. For example, see http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+cannot+load+web+sites+but+other+programs+can.

It would make sense for articles which tell a user to change a value in the about:config page to include a reference to a page about the about:config page.

Comment 7

[myles7897]

Is this a WONFIX? since we decided not point to about:config unless needed.