Little known firefox about commands; Unleash hidden powers of Firefox

Firefox about commands are actually a few special URLs, which begin with about: that you can type into the Location Bar to tweak the hidden settings of Firefox web browser.

  • about:

Shows information about Firefox.

  • about:blank

Shows a blank page

  • about:home

Shows the Firefox home page with a Google search bar.

  • about:addons

Shows the addons page

  • about:sync-tabs

Shows tabs synced from other computers (tab syncing has to be enabled).

  • about:credits

Shows credits

  • about:license

Shows the Mozilla Public License.

  • about:rights

Shows licensing information and your rights.

  • about:logo

Shows the logo used on the about: screen.

  • about:plugins

Shows installed, currently enabled plug-ins.

  • about:buildconfig

Shows the arguments and options used to compile the Firefox build in use.

  • about:cache

Shows information about the data in the browser cache.

  • about:crashes

Shows details of crashes submitted by Mozilla’s crash reporter.

  • about:memory

Shows memory usage.

  • about:config

Shows the firefox configuration page with a lot of configuration options.

  • about:support

Shows troubleshooting information.

  • about:privatebrowsing

Can be used to switch to private browsing mode.

  • about:sessionrestore

Shows an interface for viewing about last session.

  • about:blocked

Shows the malware protection page used when the browser identifies a page as not safe for viewing.

  •  about:certerror

Shows the error page used when an SSL/TLS certificate is untrusted or otherwise invalid.

  • about:feeds

Shows the page used when clicking the rss feed icon in the address bar.

  • about:neterror

Shows the error page used when the browser could not access the requested path.

  • about:permissions

This command shows the permissions given by you to different websites, like allowing to store passwords, share your location, allow cookies, open pop-up windows, and maintain offline storage.This is available in Firefox 6+ only.

For more information on these you may visit http://kb.mozillazine.org/About_protocol_links

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