This is mostly for my own reference, but I thought it worth posting in case anyone else finds it useful. Now that Firefox 2.0 is out, I’ve noticed a number of changes in the default UI and behaviour from 1.5 that one can no longer change through the options dialogue, and which I find awkward. This is a list of the hidden preferences (visible through about:config) and their settings.
- Opening a group of bookmarks in tabs overwrites existing tabs
- browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace should be set to false (open bookmark groups in new tabs)
- Close buttons on each tab make it harder to close several tabs, and more likely that you’ll close a tab accidentally when selecting it
- browser.tabs.closeButtons should be set to 3 (single close button at the right end of the tab bar)
- Firefox accepts all cookies, regardless of originating server
- network.cookie.cookieBehavior should be set to 1 (only accept cookies from the originating server)
- Go button on url bar takes up extra screen real estate
- browser.urlbar.hideGoButton should be set to true (hides the Go button)
- Keywords in the url bar go to Google I Feel Lucky or Google Browse by Name, rather than a basic Google search
- keyword.URL should be set to http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q= (default for non-Firefox Mozilla products)