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Buttons on options window

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Bit of an odd question, but I tinker with FF's options often and today I noticed the buttons on the bottom of my options window changed from "Ok", "Cancel" and "Help" to just "Close" and "Help". Did this change due to a recent Firefox update, or I did I accidentally do something to it?

Bit of an odd question, but I tinker with FF's options often and today I noticed the buttons on the bottom of my options window changed from "Ok", "Cancel" and "Help" to just "Close" and "Help". Did this change due to a recent Firefox update, or I did I accidentally do something to it?

Chosen solution

Set the Boolean pref browser.preferences.instantApply to false on the about:config page.

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.

  • Use the Filter bar at to top of the about:config page to locate a preference more easily.
  • Preferences that have been modified show as bold (user set).
  • Preferences can be reset to the default via the right-click context menu if they are user set
  • Preferences can be changed via the right-click context menu: Modify (String or Integer) or Toggle (Boolean)
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There are a several tabs in options, they don't all have the same choices.

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Oh, I'm talking about those confirmation buttons on the bottom (not sure of the "technical" names of them). They're the same regardless of which tab I'm on.

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Chosen Solution

Set the Boolean pref browser.preferences.instantApply to false on the about:config page.

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.

  • Use the Filter bar at to top of the about:config page to locate a preference more easily.
  • Preferences that have been modified show as bold (user set).
  • Preferences can be reset to the default via the right-click context menu if they are user set
  • Preferences can be changed via the right-click context menu: Modify (String or Integer) or Toggle (Boolean)