About config entries Mozilla. Zine Knowledge Base. From Mozilla. Zine Knowledge Base. The correct title of this article is about config entries. It appears incorrectly here due to technical limitations in the wiki software. This is not the place to edit your configuration settings. This is a reference to the entries in about config, where all user preferences can be viewed and modified. In most cases the list below doesnt state whether a given preference applies to all, or only some and which, of Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite, Sea. Monkey, or even the now discontinued Sunbird trial and error is often the only way to tell if some particular preference applies to your version of your application. JPG' alt='Install Trusted Root Certificate Firefox Mozilla' title='Install Trusted Root Certificate Firefox Mozilla' />There are two kinds of people in this world impossibly organized saints. Chrome at any given time. Sure, keeping. Firefox uses HTTPS for Google searches as of version 14, to shield our users from network infrastructure that may be gathering data about the users or modifying. Users not already familiar with about config entries should read the companion article, about config, which describes how to modify values and work with the about config list. This article does not contain a complete list of all preferences. If you dont find an entry below for a given preference, check the Category Preferences multiple page listing, which includes many new preferences that have not been added here, as well as those preferences that have been migrated from sections of this article. Also check Mail and news settings for a listing of Thunderbird and Mozilla SuiteSea. Monkey mail and news preferences. Unlike the rest of us, UPS has already begun to plan ahead for the holiday season. On Monday, UPS announced that its raising its shipping rates around Black Friday. The other answers regarding updatecacertificates are correct for applications that read from the system certificate store. For Chrome and Firefox, and probably some. Alternative lists can be found here. For a comparison view of table and actual about config settings, use the Fox Splitter formerly Split Browser extension or the new version of Fox Splitter to show one above the other. Also, finding item documentation for a preference from within about config can be sped up with the Prefsearch extension, which adds a context menu item to search Google for the selected preference item. Use the FAQs below to help answer your Digital Certificate questions. If you do not find the answer youre looking for, please contact us. Note There is no indication in the table as to which items will take effect immediately, with a new window, or require restarting. Spaces between the dots in preference names on this page exist purely for word wrapping. They are actually not present and should not be thought as so. Editors of this page must take care to follow this convention in order to not force users to horizontally scroll this article. Accessibility. accessibility. Find As You Type behavior, change how the Tab key works in web pages and XUL, turn on caret browsing, and tweak other accessibility related features. Category Preferences. Advanced. advanced contains two prefs Advanced. Advanced. system. DDEExec. advanced. Category Preferences. Alerts. alerts. contains three prefs, all related to the GUI Alerts. Increment, Alerts. Increment. Time, and Alerts. Open. Time. alerts. Category Preferences. App. app. allows you to modify application update behaviour. Category Preferences. Meaning of Values. Boolean. True Activates bidi interface and keyboard unconditionally. False Only activates bidi interface and keyboard in bidi locales. Default. bidi. characterset Integer. How the browser determines the character set to use. Document specified character set. Default character set. Integer. How controls are used. Logical. 2 Visual this is no longer supported and leads to strange side effects, see bug 3. Container. bidi. direction Integer. Select direction of text. Left to right. 2 Right to left. Integer. How numerals are displayed. Nominal numerals. Regular context numerals. Hindi context numerals. Arabic numerals. 4 Hindi numerals. Integer. Select provider of bi directional support. Mozilla. 2 OS3 Disable. Integer. Type of text. Charset. 2 Logical. Visual. bidi. edit. Browser. Name. Meaning of Values. String. The default color for active links as a hex code. Default is EE0. 00. String. The default color for links as a hex code. Default is 0. 00. EENote This can be changed in Firefox via Tools Options Content Fonts Colors Colors. Link Colors Unvisited Links Firefox 1. Edit Preferences Appearance Colors Link Colors Unvisited Links in Mozilla Suite and Sea. Monkey. browser. backspaceaction Integer. Determines the behavior of the backspace key. Goes back in history. Acts as Page Up. 2 and above Does nothing. Note See bug 3. 01. Mozilla Suite. browser. Boolean. True default Use of the blink tag or CSSs text decoration blink will result in blinking elements. False Blinking is disabled. Boolean. True Links with target set to blank will open in the current tab instead of a new window. False Links with target set to blank will open in a new window. Note No longer in use. Use browser. link. Boolean. Keeps track of whether a root folder for system imported bookmarks has been created in bookmarks. True The root folder has been created. False default until import complete Create the root folder unless were using dynamic bookmarks browser. String. The full path and filename of your bookmarks file bookmarks. In Windows, the path separator must be two backslashes e. C PathTobookmarks. Boolean. Determine the system bookmark strategy. True Enable a live view of system bookmarks which is read only. False default Opposite of above. Note Setting this to true will prevent Imported IE Favorites folder from being deleted where applicable see bug 2. Integer. The number of seconds between Live Bookmark checks. Values under 6. 0 are assumed to be 6. Boolean. True Overwrite the current bookmarks. False default Do not reset bookmarks. Note Firefox 1. 5 and above only. String. The order in which to sort bookmarks in the Bookmarks Managerdescending default Unsortednatural Alphabetically, A Zascending Alphabetically, Z ANote In Firefox, this can be changed via Bookmarks Organize or Manage Bookmarks. View. browser. bookmarks. String. The RDF source to use when sorting the bookmarks in the Bookmarks Managerrdf http home. NC rdfName default by bookmark namerdf http home. NC rdfURL by URL rdf http home. NC rdfShortcut. URL by bookmark keyword rdf http home. NC rdfDescription by description rdf http home. NC rdfBookmark. Add. Date by bookmark creation date rdf http home. WEB rdfLast. Modified. Date by bookmark modification date rdf http home. WEB rdfLast. Visit. Date by date of last visit Note In Firefox, this can be changed via Bookmarks Organize or Manage Bookmarks. View. browser. cache. Integer. How often to check the remote page for a newer version than what might be in the cache. Check once per browser session. Check every time I view the page. Never check always use cached page3 default Check when the page is out of date automatically determined. Integer. Amount of disk space allowed for the browsers cache in KB. Default is 5. 00. Note In Firefox, this can be changed via Tools Options Advanced Network Offline Storage Firefox. Tools Options Advanced Network Cache Firefox 2 or Tools Options Privacy Cache Firefox 1. Mozilla SuiteSea. Monkey, via Edit Preferences Advanced Cache. Boolean. True default Use disk cache, up to capacity specified in browser. False Disable disk cache same effect as setting browser. String. Full path to the parent directory of the Cache folder used for storing the browsers cache. In Windows, the path separator must be two backslashes e. C PathToParentFolder if the value is being set in the user. Boolean. True default Cache content received via SSLFalse Do not cache content received via SSLNote See bug 5. Hack It 3 0 Wow Tales Crear on this page. Integer. Determines how the browser uses RAM for cache. Automatically set size of capacity as a percentage of physical RAM0 disables the memory cache device entirelyn Set the maximum RAM used to n KB. Boolean. True default Use memory cache, up to capacity specified in browser. RAM see bug 1. 05. False Disable memory cache same effect as setting browser. Boolean. True default Load and display favicons residing in the current pages site root directory. False Opposite of the above.