Firefox About Commands List

Posted on July 19th, 2009, by Joel 4 Comments

Firefox has a lof of configaration options using “about:” clause but we generally don’t use it, So here is a list of commands to pass your time :D

about:
Just type the above clause and you will see general info about Firefox.

about:mozilla
Pretty scary, try it for yourselves.

about:blank
This as we all know it, shows a blank page.

about:config
This shows the main Firefox configuration.

about:cache
This shows the cache info & stats, and allows you to browse your cache files.

about:credits
This shows all the people who contributed towards Firefox development.

about:plugins
This shows info about all the plugins installed on Firefox.

about:buildconfig
This shows info about the particular Firefox build, that is if you wanna know.

about:robots
This is the funniest, check this out.

—Edit  (thanks to blacknoise)—

about:sessionrestore
This is useful for manually restoring your sessions.

about:certerror
This is the window which is displayed to the user when there is a certificate mismatch occurs (if you see this screen, then thats probably a good idea to get out of that site asap).

about:privatebrowsing
This is useful to start private browsing mode.

resource:
Shows the directory structure of the Firefox installation.

This is all that I know, if you know any, I will be happy to add them to this list, please let me know in your comments below :D

Related posts:

  1. Firefox 3 beta 4: Disabling Extension Compatibility Check
  2. List of Firefox Add-ons
  3. Make Firefox remember login data and passwords
  4. Run Firefox 3 Alongside Firefox 2
  5. Contacts missing from WLM contacts list?
Posted in Misc | Tags: , ,

4 Responses to “Firefox About Commands List”

  1. Meena Bassem says:

    yea man.. about:mozilla is really scary..
    i knew most of them from an add on of a menu with these commands..
    but the one i used mostly was about:config :)
    and the first option i change was browser.search.openintab i set it to true :P

  2. blacknoise says:

    how about these :P

    about:sessionrestore

    about:certerror

    about:privatebrowsing
    (for Firefox 3.5)
    and also there is resource: which is not an about command but it shows the directory listing of Firefox installation root

  3. Meena Bassem says:

    yea these are really new for firefox 3.5 :D
    i guess that about:sessionrestore is the one i may use most :)

  4. tweakhead says:

    about:license