I have one more Firefox 3.6 about:config tip up my sleeve. By toggling one setting, you can go from having a drop down list of tabs to a thumb-nailed view of each tab that is open.
Here is how you too can enable this secret Firefox 3.6 feature.
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More About the about: in Firefox
Here are all of the useful (and not so useful, but still funny) about: triggers you can type into your address bar.
about: — The same page as “Help -> About”.
about:blank — A blank page. Useful for setting as your homepage.
about:cache — Displays cache statistics and disk cache directory location.
about:config — GUI for modifying user preferences.
about:crashes — List of Breakpad crash reports, with links and datestamps. Only in products based on Gecko 1.9 or later (Firefox 3, Thunderbird 3, SeaMonkey 2).
about:credits — The list of contributors to the Mozilla projects.
about:logo — Displays the application logo (Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, and Firefox 3).
about:kitchensink — Was never included in Mozilla for the reasons listed in Bug 122411 (“Mozilla does not have a kitchen sink”). You can install an extension that adds it though :)
about:license — shows the Mozilla Public License and the Netscape Public License for the piece of software. ( Only in products based on Gecko 1.8 or later)
about:mozilla — The famous Book of Mozilla.
about:plugins — Lists all your plugins as well as other useful information.
about:robots — Easter egg, see bug 417302. Beginning with March 8th, 2008 trunk builds, it’s now available on Firefox 3.0b5.
List is courtesy of Mozillazine. From the useful to the silly, which of these is your favorite?
about:robots – Firefox 3 Secret!
For those of you playing with Firefox 3 – Beta 5, try typing about:robots into your address bar and hit enter.
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Fire Encrypter
Want Firefox to help you encrypt your secret files and documents? Maybe you just want to learn more about the encryption process? No matter which camp you fall into, the Fire Encrypter Firefox extension is for you. It brings the top secret world of encryption right into your favorite little browser.
Book Of Mozilla Easter Egg
Easter eggs hidden away inside of programs is nothing new. What I didn’t know till this morning was that even Firefox has a few tricks up it’s sleeves.
It was a lot of fun to read but one thing that really struck me as interesting was this about:mozilla “Easter Egg” that they mention. The Book of Mozilla has been something that even the first version of Netscape has had in it. You can pull it up in Firefox/Netscape by typing in about:mozilla into the Address Bar and pressing Enter.
