-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I always got a kick from about:mozilla Even IE has an about:mozilla (or at least it used to), thought not nearly as entertaining as the firefox/mozilla version.
Mark Carlson wrote: > There are a few about: URLs I'm aware of, and they can be used to do > some pretty neat things. I'm sure some of you may know these, and if > you have any more info, please share it :-) > > These can be pasted into your browser (FireFox for sure, links no, I'm > not sure about other browsers, and who knows about IE...) I'm told > they have been around since the Netscape 1.0 days, maybe before? > > about:blank > This URL is a blank page. If you have a computer that is pretty slow > and you don't want it rendering a web page every time it opens up > (this can take a few extra seconds) set the homepage to about:blank > and it might have a little quicker start up time. Also, this is > apparently something some browser hijackers set your homepage to... > I'm not sure why. > > about:config > I found out about this one after seeing > http://www.petebevin.com/archives/2005/03/10/firefox_popups.html > In FireFox it has a lot of configuration options you can change. One > kind of handy option to add is: > privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins with a value of `2` > This will (for the most part) disable Flash and possibly other plugins > from opening popups that get around the FireFox popup blocker. I > still get some popups in FireFox after adding this, but fewer than I > did before. > > I also had to use about:config once to allow FireFox to use SSL2 > (ugh...) to configure a DLink router. > > about: > In FireFox, this gives you a page with a little information about the > version you are using. > > about:buildconfig > In Mozilla browsers, shows you the arguments used to build the browser > (although if you used Gentoo, you'd probably already know, heh) > > about:cache > In Mozilla browsers for sure: This is handy if you want to find out > how much of the cache the browser is using, and where the folder is. > > about:plugins > This shows what plugins are loaded. It's rather handy if you are > trying to get a plugin installed and don't know if it's there or not, > or if it's handling the right MIME types. > > There are quite a few others, and of course, after getting halfway > through writing this I found a good page on Wikipedia (note for later, > search Wikipedia first...) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About: that describes them in much more detail. > > -Mark Carlson > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDY7UKwRXgH3rKGfMRAiMRAKCJDRN4yZBAwD93tQcdepv3/cZIWQCfVVQz /m6t5y5pvrr+RzO3BNziM10= =hK9f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
