Firefox and Thunderbird: Beyond Browsing and Email

Chapter 9. Changing Preferences and Settings

IN THIS CHAPTER

• about:

• about:buildconfig

• about:cache

• about:config, Firefox’s Configuration Console

• about:credits—Who’s Guilty?

• about:Mozilla

• about:plugins, Plugging into Plug-ins

• Working with about: Secrets for Power Users

First introduced with Firebird version 0.6, the about: facility enables you to view various settings and change preferences. There are a total of seven options:

• about:—. Displays an about screen listing Firefox’s version information, as well as other useful information.

• about:buildconfig—. Displays information about the actual build of Firefox. This shows which compiler options were used, as well as the target platform.

• about:cache—. Lists information about the memory and disk cache. All the ...