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Posted: Mar. 06 2006,23:30 QUOTE

For those (like me) who are used to closing tabs in Firefox using the middle mouse button, instead of that pesky URL paste function; do this :-

enter "about:config" in the address bar
Filter for the word "middle"
middlemouse.content:LoadURL will be "true", just double click it to "false".
restart FireFox.
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Posted: April 04 2006,14:01 QUOTE

Sweet!  Thank you very much!

Now, to get the scroll wheel working...  Off to search again!
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Posted: April 04 2006,14:17 QUOTE

That is sweet.  Even if it didn't have the close tab feature, I still like it just to disable the middle-click URL paste.  I can't say how many times I've attempted to middle-click a link to open it in a new tab, only to miss the mark slightly and have my page be replaced by some worthless and unrelated content.  The only pasting i want to see is when clicking in a text field.

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Posted: April 11 2006,02:47 QUOTE

Hi all;
I'm new to this forum (so perhaps somethings are already mentioned elsewhere here) - but I'm a huge fan of about:config for customizing Firefox, Mozilla, and yes, even Epiphany (GNOME based on Mozilla)...

I'm using DSL v1.1(acccording to "Dillo") and FF v0.9.1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040630 Firefox/0.9.1

If you want all flashing/rotating "images" (such as animated GIFs) to stop, do this;
type image in the "Filter" bar once you load about:config in a separate tab -- whatever search term you put into the "Filter" box, will help you narrow down your choice settings, and make finding these/those specific settings easier.

notice this setting;
image.animation_mode
change "normal" to "none" :)

Here's some more changes I do to ALL my FF/Moz browsers;
middlemouse.paste = false

middlemouse.contentLoadURL = false
# Already Posted by Humpty

middlemouse.openNewWindow = false

type in the Filter box;
dom.disable...
EVERY setting (16 of them) that starts with *dom.disable* ONLY - should be set to true

This overrides ALL the stupid JavaScript in web pages ( from Windows/Tabs/Clicks that Javascript opened) that do NOT allow you to
* Resize the window
* Toolbars = missing
* Menu bar = missing
* Right click to gain access to Context menu = Unable
* Minimize = missing
* Scrollbars = missing
etc, etc, etc

I personally turn OFF all the Java and Javascript anyway (in the GUI) -- but there are many that are not located in the GUI -->
Edit | Preferences | Advanced | Javascript | Advanced
(you'll notice there are only 5 there - whereas in about:config, there's 16 of them. I tried to take a screenshot just now, to illustrate which ones the GUI allows you to disable, but it's not working too well t the moment...anyway, I'll surely add more, as I return, and get this DSL configured correctly.
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Posted: April 11 2006,19:23 QUOTE

Another useful firefox config (in my opinion)....

I don't like icons, and get rid of them wherever I can.  The icons in the firefox bookmarks menu and tabs can be removed (not just replaced with a default icon) by adding this to userChrome.css:
Code Sample
/* kill all bookmark icons */
.bookmark-item > .menu-iconic-left {
 display: none;
}
/* kill all tab icons */
.tabbrowser-tabs .tab-icon {
 display: none;
}

I still don't know how to remove the icon from the address bar.


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