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about:config shows a screen that says "This might void your warranty.". Is this supposed to be a joke? Which warranty is being voided here?
by ma2rten 7y ago
about:config shows a screen that says "This might void your warranty.". Is this supposed to be a joke? Which warranty is being voided here?
- floatingatoll 7y agoThere are settings in there that can^ lock you out of the browser UI and/or potentially destroy your profile data, if you are especially unlucky, potentially months or years after you made the change and since forgot that you did so. It’s usually possible to recover and it’s usually not so bad, but I imagine that’s why it’s a very scary warning. ^ webrender gfx all, for example, seems to break my Firefox Nightly every few months, which I duly report and see fixed the next day or so, but one time it took a couple weeks for them to find the crash!
- rahuldottech 7y agoYeah it's a joke. These settings might break a few websites, although I don't recall that ever happening to me. And any websites these settings break shouldn't be websites you're visiting anyway.
- cyphar 7y ago> dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled = false This breaks copy-paste for quite a few rich text editors (it was the reason why pasting into Riot didn't work for me for several months). So, some of these options can subtly break harmless websites.