Easy Tweaks

navegante · Post by **navegante** » April 1st, 2003, 3:47 am

Hi!

I’ve a little proposal for the good programmers, Phoenix lovers and experts.
I´ve realise that Phoenix has a lot of features that are unavailable for the average user, and only some advanced users, with knowledge and patience to edit user.js can taste the full potential of this magnificent browser.

I don´t know if this is possible to accomplish but one thing that I miss on Phoenix is a preferences for intermediate users, but I think that is necessary to have some sort of console that allows users that don´t understand about:config, nor are willing to read a lot of posts in this great Forum.

Can this be possible to achieve in a Phoenix extension, which could combine several extensions already there? Some kind of Tweaks that allow intermediate and power users to mess the preferences and definitions, like in Opera?

Alfred Kayser · Post by **Alfred Kayser** » April 1st, 2003, 4:18 am

Try 'about:config', it is not for the innocent novice, but still
is somewhat better than editting prefs.js or user.js.
Most changes have immediate effect.
I remember that are some bugs reported on adding descriptions to the entries.

warenhaus · Post by **warenhaus** » April 1st, 2003, 4:31 am

you can try Preferential, that adds "Advanced Prefs" to the tools menu. it's about the same as about:config, but with a nicer interface
http://preferential.mozdev.org/

seb · Post by **seb** » April 1st, 2003, 10:27 am

The current small and improved™ Options panel™ of Phoenix (not ™) was designed differently from Mozilla's prefs panel (which contains thousands of prefs and panels) precisely because the average Joe doesn't need all those options.
Power users will *maybe* want them (well, I'm one, and I don't want them), but Phoenix first target is average users.

flii · Post by **flii** » April 1st, 2003, 10:56 am

you didn't tm mozilla.

seb · Post by **seb** » April 1st, 2003, 11:09 am

Right.
Mozilla®™

navegante · Post by **navegante** » April 2nd, 2003, 4:12 am

warenhaus wrote:you can try Preferential, that adds "Advanced Prefs" to the tools menu. it's about the same as about:config, but with a nicer interface
http://preferential.mozdev.org/

It´s nice and since it documents the «tweaks».
There´s a old extension

http://texturizer.net/phoenix/extension ... QuickPrefs

that is more user-friendly but isn´t active.