On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, James wrote:

> > There's nothing wrong with defaults. I don't recall ever bitching about
> > defaults. What I want is the *option* to toggle it. I don't think 
> > there's
> > any valid reason for denying that.
> 
> But you don't want developers forcing anything on you.

Please don't put words in my mouth. What I don't want is to be unable to
turn special features on and off. I really don't care if they come "on" by
default or "off" by default, I just want the *option*.

> Currently I have 90 lines in my user.js preference file. Gecko has 
> hundreds of tweakable options, hell 8 alone for controlling type ahead 
> find, that's one preference pane there. To control all options of gecko 
> and not have the hidden prefs, you'd need way too many options and 
> you'd end up with Mozilla.

Alright, fair enough. That's the first good argument I've heard for it --
thanks for supplying it.

Can you point me towards a resource for learning about the hundreds of
tweakable options in Gecko and how to tweak 'em?

Thanks DS

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