Nuno Silva

Firefox Commands

Like Google Chrome (see Google Chrome Commands), Firefox always have had about commands.

about: - Firefox version information.

about:blank - shows an empty page.

about:buildconfig - show Firefox build information (compiler and parameters used).

about:cache - Cache information of your Firefox. if you use about:cache?device=memory you’ll get detailed information about cache memory. if you use about:cache?device=disk you’ll see detailed information about cache in you hard drive.

about:config - A list of properties to tune your firefox. In once talked about this command in Firefox 3 is not caching content.

about:credits - A list of contributors that help made Firefox.

about:mozilla - just some text taken form the “The Book of Mozilla“:

“Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.

from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9″

about:plugins - a list of all plugins currently installed.

about:robots - shows a humorous page with robots (Thanks omi for the contribution).

08 Sep 08 | Web

3 Responses to “Firefox Commands”

Ricardo | September 8th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

“about:mozilla” não é um comando mas simplesmente a pesquisa “I’m Feeling Lucky” do Google a funcionar…
Nuno Silva | September 8th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

Desculpa, mas não consigo concordar contigo.

Quando escrevo about:mozilla a página que é aberta é uma página xhtml que está no meu disco. Mais precisamenete em: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\chrome\toolkit.jar\content\global\mozilla.xhtml.

Isto claro na minha máquina (Firefox 3.0.1)
omi | October 31st, 2008 at 9:21 am

the about:robots command will display a humorous page about robots

The Guy

My name is Nuno Silva and I am the author of this blog. I am a Computer Engineer and have a passion for game development.

So, in this blog you find especially things about the web, game development, software, my personal projects (Orion's belt for instance) and, sometimes, just crazy things that pass through my head.