Firefox

Some of this applies to SeaMonkey, some of it might be outdated (since I no longer use Firefox), and some of it may make your device catch on fire.

Key Value Notes
geo.enabled false Disable being asked to share your location. link
browser.search.geoip.url Blank Disable Geolocation for default search engine
browser.download.lastDir.savePerSite false Disable remembering per-site download directories. link
browser.urlbar.trimURLs false Disable hiding protocol at the front of the URL bar. link
network.dns.disableIPv6 true Disable IPv6. link
network.dns.disablePrefetch true Disable prefetching. link
network.prefetch-next false
network.http.speculative-parallel-limit 0
dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled false Disable clipboard notifications.
browser.cache.offline.enable false Disable offline cache.
webgl.disabled true Disable WebGL.
dom.battery.enabled false Disable battery status.
pageThumbs.enabled false Disable thumbnail previews. link
browser.tabs.tooltippreview.enable false Disable thumbnail previews in SeaMonkey. link
extensions.getAddons.cache.enabled false Disable addon metadata updating.
media.peerconnection.enabled false Disable WebRTC.
media.peerconnection.identity.enabled false
media.peerconnection.video.enabled false
media.peerconnection.p9_enabled false
network.captive-portal-service.enabled false Disable captive portal detection. link
reader.parse-on-load.enabled false Disable reader mode.
extensions.pocket.enabled false Disable pocket.

Thunderbird

Key Value Notes
mailnews.reply_quoting_selection false Disable quoting only selected text when replying. link
mailnews.reply_quoting_selection.multi_word false
mail.ui.display.dateformat.today 2 Show short date in message list.
mail.smtpserver.smtp1.hello_argument mail.yourname.tld HELO identifier (needs to be set for each SMTP profile)
general.useragent.override My Mail Application v1.0 Override mail agent.
extensions.enigmail.addHeaders false Hide Enigmail extension
mailnews.default_news_sort_order 2 Set default to sort by date descending link
mailnews.default_news_sort_type 18
mailnews.default_sort_order 2
mailnews.default_sort_type 18

MPlayer/SMPlayer

Disable xscreensaver while playing. link

File Content
~/.mplayer/config heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate >&- 2>&- &"

Thunar

Stop Thunar from automatically resizing columns. link

  • Menu
  • View
  • Configure Columns
  • Automatically expand columns as needed (uncheck)

Stop Thunar from ignoring non-alpha-numeric characters when sorting. link

File Content
~/.config/openbox/environment export LC_COLLATE=C

Chrome/Chromium

Protocol and www hidden in URL bar

  • Right click URL bar and set Always Show Full URLs

No proxy configuration on Linux

tips/make_applications_not_suck.txt · Last modified: 2023-08-06 19:18 by snork
 
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