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Re:Checkboxes that kill your product by sergiosgc on Monday March 18, 2013 @02:03PM (#5395971)
Even more so if about:config included a one-liner explaining what the option is for. Sprinkle search/hierarchization on top of the about:config and suddenly the rule can be "if 99% of the users don't need the option, it goes into about:config only".
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Re:Checkboxes that kill your product by claudius on Monday March 18, 2013 @02:14PM (#5396056)
Sounds like opera:config - which doesn’t render the ‘Advanced’ tab in its Preferences menu useless.
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Re:Checkboxes that kill your product by jdechko on Monday March 18, 2013 @04:42PM (#5396998)
The about:config window has a giant search box right at the top of it. It's not hierarchical, but its sorted alphabetically, so, for instance, all accessibility.* options are grouped together.

A short description would be nice, though.

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Re:Checkboxes that kill your product by subsection1h on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @05:10AM (#5399719) 

    A short description would be nice, though.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/config-descri...
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