[dylug] Ten Mysteries of about:config

Ten Mysteries of about:config
By Nigel McFarlane on Wed, 2005-04-06 23:00.

The Firefox Web browser, built by the Mozilla Foundation and friends
is a complicated piece of technology-if you care to look under the
hood. It's not obvious where the hood catch is, because the surface of
Firefox (its user interface) is polished up to appeal to ordinary,
nontechnical end users. This article gives you a glimpse of the
engine. It explains how the Mozilla about:config URL opens up a world
of obscure preferences that can be used to tweak the default setup.
They're an improbable collection and therein lies the beauty of
Firefox if you're a grease monkey or otherwise technical. At the end
you'll know a little more about Firefox, but only enough to be
dangerous.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8004