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Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Fun with Firefox URLs


Firefox’s user interface is written using XUL and Javascript. The Gecko engine which renders the webpages also renders the user interface. This means you can enter chrome URLs into the Firefox address bar and do some really cool things.

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

This is awesome. Type this in the address bar and you can have a nested copy of Firefox running inside Firefox. You can even open up several tabs at this URL and have tabbed windows. You can even nest Firefox inside itself several times. Most things seem to work.


chrome://global/content/alerts/alert.xul

Notice: This will make your Firefox window disappear under the taskbar. Before loading this URL, make sure you have at least one other tab open. The Firefox window should do a crazy dance in the corner of the screen. If your Firefox window disappears, right click Firefox in the taskbar and select maximize. Press Control+W to stop Firefox from moving around.

chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences.xul

Opens the Options window. 

chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul

Opens a list of your bookmarks.

chrome://browser/content/history/history-panel.xul

Opens a list of websites in your history.

chrome://global/content/console.xul

Opens the Javascript console.

chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul?type=extensions

Opens the Extensions window.

chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul

Opens the Themes window.

chrome://mozapps/content/profile/profileSelection.xul

Closes the current tab in Firefox; or the window if there is only one tab open.

chrome://global/content/finddialog.xul

Opens the old Firefox "Find" dialog

chrome://global/content/printdialog.xul

Opens the Firefox Print dialog 

chrome://global/content/filepicker.xul

Seems to open a Linux style file picker on Windows .

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