Setting hidden preferences in Camino

Apr 07, '03 09:30:00AM

Contributed by: wgscott

I can't take credit for this because I was told of its existence by Simon Fraser, a Camino (previously called Chimera) developer. There are hidden preferences in Camino that can be set via a special user.js preferences file. The file needs to be created in this path: ~/Library -> Application Support -> Chimera -> Profiles -> default -> random.slt, where random.slt is uniquely named for each user (for security reasons).

The user.js file can contain different settings for preference variables (thus over-riding prefs.js settings), as well as some other "hidden" settings. In my case, I wanted to recover the ability to download files with a save window that allows me to select a different directory each time. So I made a file called user.js in the noted directory, and put the following single line in it:

user_pref("browser.download.autoDownload", false);
As far as I know, this one is not documented anywhere.

[robg adds: This hint is kind of the "parent hint" to a number of others concerning Chimera's hidden preferences; this search URL will return a list of 12 previous hints that mention some hidden Camino preference settings. The Camino "hidden preferences" page referenced above is a bit of a tease; they list three hidden settings and then basically tell you to go explore on your own ;-).]

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