== Firefox preferences settings that I use

In the spirit of my [[Firefox extensions FirefoxExtensions]], and since I
just went through this exercise today, here are the Firefox preferences
customizations that I currently use. At least some of these are only
present in relatively bleeding edge Firefox builds, and you will need
to use _about:config_ to enable at least some of them.

(I have not put everything in here, just the stuff that I always forget
and that irritates me when it's missing.)

|_. [[browser. backspace_action|]]	| 1
	| Scroll the page up on backspace. This matches the traditional
	Unix behavior of Netscape 4, which I am very very used to by now. \\
	(This is only present in recent Firefox builds; before that Backspace
	always went back in the history. As a result, my own personal Firefox
	build has this chainsawed out via more direct methods.)
| [[browser. blink_allowed|]]		| false
	| I do not want _<blink>_ to do anything.
| browser. download. manager. retention	| 0
	| 'Do not remember my downloads', ie 'do not clutter the download
	dialog with stuff I have already deleted'. I always have to remember
	that this setting is in the Privacy section of Preferences, unlike
	the other download settings.
| [[browser. enable_automatic_image_resizing|]] | false
	| I do not want my images to be resized into illegibility in order
	to fit in my current browser window, thanks.
| browser. formfill. enable		| false
	| Also in the Privacy settings, although I consider it to be
	another 'do not annoy me thanks bye' setting.
| [[browser. send_pings|]]		| false
	| See [[here http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.send_pings]] for
	an explanation.
| browser. urlbar. matchOnlyTyped	| true
	| Ideally I would be able to turn off URL bar autocompletion
	entirely; however, this does not seem possible in current Firefox
	builds. Making it only autocomplete things I've explicitly entered
	into the URL bar is the best I can do.
| extensions. checkCompatibility	| false
	| This is necessary to install several of my [[Firefox extensions]]
	in current Firefox trunk builds, even with the [[Nightly Tester
	Tools http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly]] installed.

In general, the [[MozillaZine Knowledge Base
http://kb.mozillazine.org/]] has a very large set of pages giving
lots of information about Firefox preferences; you can start [[here
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries]] and then follow their
links.