How to Customize Firefox Browser with About:config – Full Configuration

If you are already bored of having your browser by default and want to customize it and give it a unique touch, in this guide I will tell you and teach you how to customize Firefox settings and what those are. Tools you can get more out ofso that you learn and have all the knowledge about the Firefox browser.

Also, if you are very interested in the style of your browser, you can customize and add new themes and the most interesting thing is that you can create it yourself.

How to access the ‘About:config’ page to customize Firefox?

If you are a new user and just learning to use firefox browser and you are interested in knowing what configurations it has and how to take advantage of each of its functions.

You should start by configuring ‘About:config’but you must keep something in mind, and that is that when you change these advanced settings, it can sometimes cause the pages to crash or have strange behavior, so you must know how to use this option, to open this page you must follow these steps:

1. You must first open the Firefox browser
2. Then in the address bar you will write: About: config y presionas ‘Enter’
3. A warning page may appear, you just have to click on ‘Accept the risks and continue’, in this way the page will open so you can start configuring it.

How to correctly manage the preferences available in About:config?

Preferences found in the Firefox browser is just another essential setting that helps you search for the terms you wantso if in the search engine that is at the top of About: config you put a word of what you want to search for, the browser will offer you the preference of that word that you wrote.

Add, change, and reset preferences

1. For add a new preference: you must click with the right button of your mouse and select the ‘New’ option and the type of preference you want to add, either: string, integer or yes/no, if you still don’t know what these words mean, I’ll explain which string is a sequence of text, integer is the numbers and yes/no is true or false.
2. For change preference: you must click on the preference either a string or an integer and select the ‘Modify’ option from the context menu or double-click directly on the preference and add the new value in the window that will appear, and to change the yes/no preference, you need to double click to change its value.
3. For reset preference: you must click on the preference and select the ‘Reset’ option, this option can only be used for preferences already set as ‘Modified’, which are the ones that appear in bold.

Search for a specific preference

The same setting of About: config offers you to search for the preference you want, you just have to use its search engine and it will offer you the preferences of the word you wrote, but you must take into account that this search engine with respect to the preference names are sensitive to upper case and lower casebut with the search terms no.

There’s a lot firefox settings that you can customize, you can customize the general panel, since this option contains settings such as: start, tabs, language, appearance, files and applications, in the start panel you will find the new windows and tabs, the Firefox start content .

You will find the search panel that is the search engine that Firefox uses by default, you will be able to configure the privacy and security panel and also the Sync panel which is where you set up or manage your Firefox account to access certain Mozilla services.

To improve Firefox

You can always improve your browser, as long as you are pending updates so that you do not have any inconvenience, of course you can also improve it according to the style and configuration that you want to put on your browser.

Whether it’s how to modify the Firefox home page and windows, whether it’s putting a theme, changing or customizing the Firefox toolbar, the font size or adding color to the browser.

If you want to protect your privacy as much as possible

The Firefox browser always cares about the user’s security, since by default it has tracking protection activated and if you need to configure some aspects of privacy you can do so by entering ‘Privacy protections’, in this option you can configure the security and privacy methods that you want, so that when you enter the browser you can do it safely.