About:config missing

They obviously have settings they dont want you to see. Most likely tracking BS. My back side has better excuses when it speaks.

I need to check a particular setting due to an app that is not working. How do I now find the setting’s value?

Just chiming in here to share a story. There always existed two download folders on my Android device (“downloads” and “Downloads”) and I couldn’t figure out why. Deleted one of them and this is when Firefox started being unable to download files.

Turns out I cannot change the download directory in the settings.

Ok, so I find a tutorial guiding me through changes to be done in about:config. I already know this from desktop, so I’m excited to be able to finally fix my issue.

Blank page, doesn’t load. Disabling all ad blockers, etc. and doubting my sanity.

And now here I am, reading that this useful feature is deliberately disabled. I’m nothing short of :sparkles:delighted :sparkles: Recreating the duplicate “downloads” folder now.

Mozilla: 1; User: 0

No progress in this matter I see.
I wish they’d restore about:config. I bought a tablet and some websites are shown in desktop mode, regardles of settings. I wanted to force everything to mobile, guess I’m stuck with tiny letters and unreadable content.

Devs, restore it already. I don’t want to use other browsers, especially not Chrome, that darn spying tool. Please don’t tell me to use Beta or Nightly. I don’t want to use unstable software.

The about:config block can be bypassed by going to “chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml” Then you can then set “general.aboutConfig.enable” to true to enable accessing it the normal way

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Thank you so much, Ash9 - this was driving me mad when trying to set up a Lenovo tablet on which Firefox displays pages over-magnified (Chrome doesn’t, but I don’t want to use Chrome)

thanks @Ash9 i edited my post to make your comment as work around
so anyone see that post know about it

thanks again and have a nice day :slight_smile: