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If you've read any of my past articles or done any tweaking of Firefox yourself, you probably already know about about:config. There are some others, some that are easy enough to guess, some that are not. Here is a list of the ones that I know about and what they do:
about:
This page is a simple "about Firefox" page, it's almost the same as if you went to the Help menu and selected "About Mozilla Firefox" except instead of a popup, you get a full page. about:credits
This one is easy enough to find because if you did go to the Help menu and press on "About Mozilla Firefox", you probably already noticed the "Credits" button in the bottom left. So again, put this one into your address bar and see it full window. about:blank
Chances are that you've seen this many many many many... uhmm... many times... it's what is generally loaded when you open a new tab by hitting control + t or what ever method you use. This is a blank page, not much to see or do but is fast loading which is great for start up or... opening a new tab. about:logo
It's.... a logo. about:license
This displays the license information for the browser and it's many components. If you've added some plugins or 3rd party software, their licenses may be displayed here as well. It's all the legal (boring) stuff. about:buildconfig
If there's anything more boring than legal stuff, it's the geeky build stuff. This gives you information on the operating system, flags used and so forth when 'compiling' your installation of Firefox. about:cache
This one gives you a lot of information about your memory and disk cache. When you visit a site, it's contents including text and images are stored on your machine in a cache. This little window gives you great insight into exactly what is stored and where. If caching is disabled, you get a very boring white page with the words "The cache is disabled". about:config
This is the nuts and bolts of your browser, much like Windows has it's registry. This holds all of the information that makes Firefox work the way it works. This is best not to be tampered with unless you know what you're doing (hense the warning it gives you) but should you want to read up, you can visit About:config entries. about:plugins
This page gives you a run down of what plugins you are using. These are not extensions, they're separate software programs that integrate to work in conjunction with Firefox, such as Flash, Java and so on. about:robots
Anyone who's dealt with developing a website for a search engine might expect this to give you some insight into how a search engine's spider might interpret your browser... but they'd be wrong. You kinda have to see it for yourself. Just don't expect any amazing wisdom or new features. about:Mozilla
Considered to be more of an 'easter egg', much like the robots page, this is Mozilla's nod to it's creation.... from the "Book of Mozilla" And there you have it. About pages in a nutshell. |
