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user manual of about:config options

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Hello all, is there any user manual of about:config options?
I'm trying to change the default "mozilla.pdf" when saving a web page to PDF. I add two new options: "print.printer_Mozilla_Save_to_PDF.print_to_file" --> "~/Work/file.pdf" and "print.printer_Mozilla_Save_to_PDF.print_to_filename" --> "~/Work/file.pdf" and restart firefox but they are NOT working. Could anyone give me a help please? thank you, Otavio
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Re: user manual of about:config options

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Re: user manual of about:config options

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The two web pages I found were "https://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries#Editor." and "https://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries#Print.". None of them is an user manual describing each existing config entry and both of them are dated...
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You can start here but I don't believe there is a single listing as older FF preferences existed.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/sea ... t%3Aconfig
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

Just found this -- looks to be a little more current:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?tit ... t%3Aconfig
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thank you Bruce
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You can read the comments of some prefs in the Firefox source code on pages like these or do a search for a specific pref.
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/s ... fList.yaml
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/s ... firefox.js
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/s ... nit/all.js
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You're welcome, otavioc.
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thank you all for the replies. The about:config editor apparently suggests that the creation of new entries are possible, but surely they should be implemented in the firefox code. I guess this is a question more suitable for the Mozilla Development forum. I'll post this same topic in this forum. If you are also interested, please follow the topic there. This will be my last try...
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Locking this now, seeing as you've posted in the Dev forum.
Coz we don't like or permit duplicates....Gets confusing.

Continue here > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3103323
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