Firefox about: pages

Special pages available in firefox :

about: A simple prompt without any parameter will display the Mozilla “about” information.
about:logo Displays firefox logo.
about:licence Informaion regarding licencing, Mozilla Public licence, Source code licence
about:buildconfig It shows the build platform configuration and parameters.
about:blank — A blank page. Useful for setting as your homepage.
about:cache Displays info and statistics regarding memory cache device and disk cache device including the number of enteries, name of your cache’s directory and a list of the entries you can find there. From there ou can view cached webpages and images.
about:config It provied you an nice interface to tweak firefox settings. It allows you to modify firefox preferences. Read About:config entries to more about it. These entries are stored in pref.js folder in your profile.
about:plugins provides information regarding installed plugins (plugins help your browser perform specific functions like viewing special graphic formats or playing multimedia files.) like flash, quicktime, realplayer, adobe reader and java plugin
about:credits This is an alphabetically sorted list of all the people that gave their contribution to the development of Firefox.
about:Mozilla from Book of Mozilla, 7:15

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

Works with Flock too but with different Quote:
from Book of Mozilla, 11:1

And when the Beast had taken the quarter of the Earth under its rule, a quarter hundred Birds of Sulfur flew from the Depths. The birds crossed hundreds of mountain views and found twenty four wise men who came from the stars. And then it began, the believers dared to listen. Then, they took their pens and dared to create. Finally, they dared to share their deed with the whole of mankind. Spreading words of freedom and breaking the chains, the birds brought deliverance to everyone.

Update: (12th April 2007)

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul To open firefox inside firefox

Update: (13th April 2007)

Editing configuration files..

Update : (4th April 2008)

javascript: – opens the js console
view-source:www.google.com/ view source for given url

Update: (22nd April 2008)

about:robots (Works with firefox versions later than v3 beta5) Message from Robots

Update: (2nd May 2008)

Type resource: in your location bar to directly go to firefox installation directory.

Update: (5nd May 2008)

about:crashes (type it in location bar) to track all the crash reports that you have submitted whenever firefox crashes.

About protocol links >>

Read The Book of Mozilla

Firefox: The Jewel of open Source, from xkcd

January 31, 2007 | Filed Under firefox, tips | 17 Comments

My Del.icio.us Toolbar

Update: Noticed some changes made by mozilla in extesnion’s page
I developed this toolbar that provides you all functionality of del.icio.us website with a quick access right in your toolbar. It helps you in searching bookmarks and tagging new websites and lot more functionalities. Try it
Download it from here : My Del.icio.us

Try Newer Version : My Del.icio.us 2.0

Try : Delicious SearchER

Related Post : Del.icio.us Bookmark Search

October 31, 2006 | Filed Under firefox | 2 Comments

If you want to develop firefox extension..

It will be helpful to have :

For creating toolbar extensions: Toolbar tutorial
Roachfield : how to create firefox extensions

October 15, 2006 | Filed Under firefox, tutorial | 5 Comments

Firefox and Thunderbird cheat sheets

A nice cheat sheet of shortcuts can be just what the doctor ordered
when you’re looking to adopt a new program and get straight to
productive use.

Source: Kshitij’s Blog

July 5, 2006 | Filed Under firefox, hacks, tips | 1 Comment

Creating Firefox Extension

Learn by example

Everyone has a good idea at one time or another to implement a new feature in a web browser. Well, with the goodness that is Mozilla Firefox, now you can do just that. You need to have a vague understanding of XUL and Javascript, but you certainly don’t need to be a master of either.
The author explains how the extensions break down in a nutshell, using BugMeNot as an example

Speed up firefox

HOW TO SPEED UP FIREFOX

Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed up Firefox :

1.Type ‘about:config’ into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries: -
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set ‘network.http.pipelining’ to ‘true’ (double click to change)
Set ‘network.http.proxy.pipelining’ to ‘true’ (double click to change)
Set ‘network.http.pipelining.maxrequests’ to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. (double click to enter number)

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it ‘nglayout.initialpaint.delay’ and set its value to ’0′. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!”
Find more firefox tweaks here

November 18, 2005 | Filed Under firefox, tips | 3 Comments

Firefox Tips

Bookmark
Just drag the URL icon (in location bar) to the bookmark toolbar (and may be then to specific folder) to bookmark that URL.
Setting Homepage
With firefox you can set two or more pages as Homepage simultaneously. Just Goto to Preferences-> then write two or more Homepage Locations using “|” . Example:
http://www.google.com | http://yahoo.com | http://www.blogger.com
you can add a pipe and a new URL after it.
Setting Alias
If you want to set an alias for a long URL. for example if you want to set alias “gm” for http://mail.google.com then do : Just bookmark the page you want… Than right-clik on the bookmark -> Properties and type the alias for that URL in “Keyword”. For example here set alias “gm”. Now in location bar if you type “gm” and enter then it wll take you to “http://mail.google.com”.
Increasing/Decreasing Font Size … Use Ctrl + / Ctrl -
Smart Keywords : more details here

some more usefull tips can be found here

October 26, 2005 | Filed Under firefox, tips | 8 Comments

Firefox Extension

Me and Kshitij are working on a firefox extension Itranslator
that converts and selected itrans text to Unicode that is being
supported by Firefox (Better if pango enabled). Earlier we were using
a server which was hosting scrits for itrans to unnicode conversion.
But now (in Newer Version) we are doing this conversion with help of
Javascript which is part of extension itself. In javascript we have
made an array so that each character is mapped to unicode
character according to Itrans standard. The real fight was in mapping
of character where two or three character like (“kha”, “cha”)
combinely map to a single unicode character which causes
problem for other mapped character.
I would like to thank Harsh for helping us with his script he used in
message box at Varta

June 25, 2005 | Filed Under firefox | Leave a Comment

My Firefox extensions

The most interseting feature of firefox is to add extra funnctionality and features through extensions. By extensions you can extends the capabilities of browser which makes firefox a leading browser.So I’m posting here about my favourite firefox extension :

Tabbrowser Preference: It allows you to open link in new tabs. Also add functionality to middle click to open links in new tab.But newer versions of firefox already have this feature.FoxyTunes: It allows you to control any media player without leaving browser. It has many features like keyboard short-cuts, skinnable, volume control, Track information.

All-in-one-mouse-gestures: Allows you to play with browser using mouse-gestures (can be user defined) . It increases speed of browsing by customization , tab and history scrolling and many more navigation aids.Googlebar:It gives you the advanced search features of google search like search images, search particular site, search via special google site( like linux search , dictionary search, scholar search). It also add features for Google blog.

Download Manager Tweak : The Download Manager Tweak extension replaces the default Firefox download manager with a customized version. The customized version allows you to open download manager either in a seperate window, the sidebar, or a new tab.Web developers (for firefox as developer tool) :The Web Developer extension is a toolbar (among other tools) that allows you to visually see how a website is created. Using this extension, it is easy to view various information about the website, such as the size of images. It also allows you to outline elements of the site, such as tables and other block elements. If you develop web pages for a living or as a hobby, or simply want to learn more about HTML, XHTML and CSS definitely install this extension.

There are many more extension available on :

Updated list extended to include this : My Firefox extensions (2)

June 22, 2005 | Filed Under firefox, listing | 4 Comments

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