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Re:Don't allow popups during page unload by userbinator on Sunday December 23, 2018 @01:53PM (#18747648)
I've always thought it weird that Firefox's about:config UI is not much better than editing a flat configuration file. Clearly there wasn't much effort put into it. Even IE's configuration is far better organised than that, grouping everything into hierarchical categories.
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Re:Don't allow popups during page unload by mintplant on Sunday December 23, 2018 @02:16PM (#18747778)
Uhh, Firefox does have the a proper GUI settings area. about:config is for experiments, internal flags automatically set according to the user's system configuration, or niche features not useful to most users (and so not promoted to a spot on one of the graphical panels).

With the "user.js" feature [0], you can actually control them from a flat configuration file.

[0] http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file

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