The thing that so many of the usability challenged folks in this thread are missing is that this is an argument about checkboxes in the standard application pre

The thing that so many of the usability challenged folks in this thread are missing is that this is an argument about checkboxes in the standard application preferences. For complicated products like Firefox, there can be a range of options based on how in your face they are: 1. wizard that demands a decision when you first install the app (last resort) 2. main pane of preferences (common decisions) 3. about:config (obscure use-cases, dangerous use cases) 4. only within the dev-tools (common case for a specific group of people) 5. recompiling (the other last resort) The customization/safety tradeoff is real, but it's not zero-sum.