Topic: Mozilla adds about:config warning (Read 2480 times)

Ryan Wagner · « **on:** December 20, 2006, 02:29:40 PM »

Looks like Mozilla is starting to treat the "about:config" modifications a little more seriously by providing a warning screen in Firefox 3 nighlies. All I have to say is..."Be careful, this gun is loaded!"

bdawg923 (Max) · « **Reply #1 on:** December 20, 2006, 02:53:57 PM »

That's smart of them to do, even though I haven't heard stories of people breaking their browsers by editing about:config.

Ryan Wagner · « **Reply #2 on:** December 20, 2006, 03:01:23 PM »

Me neither...but there are an awful lot of options that could be changed so I am sure something could screw it up, or at least provide undesired effects.

bdawg923 (Max) · « **Reply #3 on:** December 20, 2006, 03:11:33 PM »

I actually just went to about:config and it didn't have that warning. I'm running Fx 2.0.0.1 on Windows XP.

Ryan Wagner · « **Reply #4 on:** December 20, 2006, 03:27:50 PM »

It's only in the Firefox 3 nightlies as of right now, so it will be a little while before it is in a milestone release.

bdawg923 (Max) · « **Reply #5 on:** December 20, 2006, 03:37:32 PM »

Oh ok. *goes to check in Portable Firefox 3* Yup, it shows up now.

Hmm, I had to update it and the update was called Minefield 3a2 pre-(cut off here, I assume pre-release). So will we see an alpha 2 soon?

Ryan Wagner · « **Reply #6 on:** December 20, 2006, 03:55:17 PM »

Gran Paradiso 3 Alpha 2 is not expected until late January the last I was informed but they are just preparing for the transition. For example, Thunderbird was labeled as Beta1pre for months before it was released?so it doesn?t signify anything related to the release date.

Rockpeteuk · « **Reply #7 on:** December 21, 2006, 05:01:23 AM »

hahaha that class least they have a bit of humor other than microsofts are you sure or it has broken ..... attitudde

Nogg3r5 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 21, 2006, 11:43:57 AM »

Heh, i like that warning.

xpgeek · « **Reply #9 on:** December 21, 2006, 02:07:36 PM »

I think its great. There isn't really anything that harmful that can be done via about:config, but there is a whole lot of incorrect information on tweaks out there. Like the classic setting max pipelining requests to some number like 100, which does absolutely nothing as Firefox has a hardcored limit of 8, so setting it to 100 still just does 8.

Nogg3r5 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 21, 2006, 02:21:34 PM »

I think it can be damaging. Not necessarily to your browser. But things like the max pipelines hack, that can overload a webserver. If everyone did it, we would create 8x more web traffic immediately!

Its cool though, at least there looking out for the users.

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