My most useful Firefox about:config tweaks.

I have collected these over time, and felt that perhaps I should post them here. Maybe someone will find them useful but if nothing else, I can store special tweaks that I love and may need to refer back to in the future.

If you're not sure what about:config even is, then perhaps this link will help. That said, on to the show.

Personalizing Firefox

Ask anyone which addons they believe are essential and you'll get a number of different answers. While that is true, it is also true that there are a few that many agree on as well. The easiest way to see what is generally accepted as essential is simply to go to the addons page at Firefox and sort them by most downloaded. Instantly you can see the top ten.

However popularity doesn't always give us quality nor usefulness. For example a Digg toolbar might be popular, but it doesn't make using Firefox any easier. If you're a Digg user, it may be handy but not everyone uses Digg. I use Digg, but I could care less about the toolbar.

Instead, the addons I tend to use are those that do things for me that I use on a very frequent basis.

Why Firefox is the ONLY browser for me.

I remember the day when there were really only a small selection of browsers. A browser is whatever you use to view the web or internet. If you had Windows and an ISP outside of AOL or Compuserve, then you likely either had Internet Explorer (IE) or Netscape, with IE being the sole winner in number of downloads.

At the time, it never occurred to me that I could have a browser to do cool things that I wanted it to do. In some ways I did, perhaps, but I sent those suggestions to Microsoft with little hope that my ideas would ever matter or even be implemented. I was rewarded with absolutely NO helpful changes whatsoever.