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streetwolf
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Requesting an add-on or whatever to do...

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I've always thought it would be nice to be able to select a preference that is in an article about Fx and through some mechanism have it open up in about:config with the selected pref displayed. I don't know if it would need to be an add-on or something else. If an add-on it would have to be a Webextension.
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Re: Requesting an add-on or whatever to do...

Post by Brummelchen »

WE are no longer allowed to open about pages
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Re: Requesting an add-on or whatever to do...

Post by morat »

I tried opening the about:blank and about:config pages with a Foxy Gestures UserScript.

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/* Foxy Gestures UserScript */

(function () {

  // succeeds
  executeInBackground("(" + function (aUrl) {
    browser.tabs.create({url: aUrl});
  } + ")", ["about:blank"]);

  // fails
  executeInBackground("(" + function (aUrl) {
    browser.tabs.create({url: aUrl});
  } + ")", ["about:config?filter=devtools.chrome.enabled"]);

}());
Error: Illegal URL: about:config?filter=devtools.chrome.enabled
Foxy Gestures
http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/foxy-gestures/
http://github.com/marklieberman/foxygestures

Foxy Gestures User Scripts
http://github.com/marklieberman/foxyges ... er-Scripts
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