A firefox secret

[Timothy Murphy]

On Mon 12 Mar 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 19:11 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Aaron Konstam wrote:

> > > Now I will tell you a secret. If you go into about:config you will see
> > > that the configuration:
> > > browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions is set as true by
> > > default. Only when it is set to false can you see what you want to see
> > > in the: Edit->Preferences->downloads->view & Edit Actions.
> > > With this set as true you are flying blind with plugins.  Why does
> > > fedora not distribute this with the configuration set properly. How
> > > would you know about this?
> >
> > Er ... where does one change this configuration entry?
>
> In firefox go to about:confiug. You will see the config parameters and
> their values. Scxroll down to:
> browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions
> and change its value.

Thanks.
I had actually tried this unsuccessfully, but I see now that
double-clicking on this toggles the value true/false.



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