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What obscure about:config settings would you recommend changing? (self.firefox)
submitted 2 years ago by NickwithaC to c/[email protected]
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We've all turned off trimURLs but what else is hiding in there?

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago (4 children)

pocket.enabled to false

First thing I do every clean install

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thanks, I need to remember to do this tomorrow.

Just had to entirely do a fresh install like 6 hours ago.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey buddy did u remember

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Just did it now, thanks for reminding me! 😊

[–] Necronomicommunist 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What does it do?

[–] emptyother 15 points 2 years ago

Disables the builtin Pocket extension.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I looked up "pocket.enabled" in about:config, but there wasn't an entry by that exact name. There was "extensions.pocket.enabled" though. Is that the same?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Thanks! Just did this.