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Useful about:config settings
Izheil edited this page Sep 12, 2025
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Here you can find some useful settings to change in About:config page.
The most relevant to note should be:
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Enable the use of
userChrome.cssanduserContent.css->toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheetsto true
Most of the functions of TMP can be replaced with CSS or JS like multi-row tabs, keep the close button on tabs always visible, focus tab on hover, and color-coding tabs when they are loaded, unloaded (CSS Tweaks section, inside Tab-related-Tweaks.css), or through extensions like Tab Session Manager and Undo Closed Tab.
For the ones that can't, here are some about:config settings that fix a few of them:
- To keep FF open even after closing the last tab ->
browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTabto false. - To open a search result typed on the URL bar on a new tab ->
browser.urlbar.openintabto true. - To open a search result typed on the search bar on a new tab ->
browser.search.openintabto true. - To open bookmarks on a new tab instead of the current tab ->
browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInTabsto true. - To force popups on new tabs instead of windows ->
browser.link.open_newwindow.restrictionto 0 (should be 2 by default). - Open related tabs (the ones you open) as the last tab in the tab bar ->
browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrentto false.
- Disable "Enable remote debugging" prompt when accessing the browser developer tools ->
devtools.debugger.prompt-connectionto false - Disable reader mode ->
reader.parse-on-load.enabledto false - Disable Pocket ->
extensions.pocket.enabledto false - Disable Media keys (the pause/stop/play buttons next to the volume controls when watching a video or audio, as well as pausing video/audio in firefox with media keys) ->
media.hardwaremediakeys.enabledto false - Disable service workers (used for website notifications mostly) ->
dom.serviceWorkers.enabledto false - Enable ICC v4 color management ->
gfx.color_management.enablev4to true - Enable color management everywhere ->
gfx.color_management.modeto true - Prevent "other bookmarks" folder to appear to the right when it's not empty ->
browser.toolbars.bookmarks.2h2020to false - Prevent bookmark folders in the bookmarks bar to close after opening a bookmark ->
browser.bookmarks.openInTabClosesMenuto false - Force enable "Recommended by Pocket" despite not having Pocket enabled, or not being in the supported regions for it (U.S., Canada, U.K. and Germany) to show ->
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.system.topstoriesto true (You can disable it in the same manner setting it to false)
If you have an SSD and want to change the cache folders somewhere else, you should add these settings with the new path:
browser.cache.disk.parent_directorybrowser.cache.offline.parent_directory
These are all telemetry related.
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browser.ping-centre.telemetryto false -
toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabledto false -
toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabledto false -
toolkit.telemetry.enabledto false -
toolkit.telemetry.serverto "" (By default is https://incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org) -
toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabledto false -
toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabledto false -
toolkit.telemetry.reportingpolicy.firstRunto false -
toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabledto false -
toolkit.telemetry.unifiedto false -
toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabledto false -
extensions.experiments.enabledto false -
datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabledto false -
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetryto false -
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetryto false
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browser.ml.chat.enabledto false -
browser.ml.chat.menuto false -
browser.ml.enableto false -
browser.ml.linkPreview.shiftto false