[geeks] FireFox: Please Shut Up

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Mon Mar 6 11:52:16 CST 2006


Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> How does one get FireFox to not make annoying sounds when a text search
> fails?  The only relevant (ie: the only thing with "sound" in it)
> preference I could find is "accessibility.typeaheadfind.enablesound",
> which doesn't seem to do what I want.
> 
> Whomever thought that software should make noises when doing something
> as common as searching for text really needs to find an exciting career
> in minesweeping.  Let's see how he likes unexpected sounds then.

At least it's not as bad as IE constantly clicking every time you do
anything, or anything loads, or just for the hell of it to make you
wonder what just happened.....

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