[geeks] FireFox: Please Shut Up

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Mon Mar 6 11:53:54 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.

I find it useful to simply turn off all browser-generated sounds, 
although I don't know if that's an option for you.

Peace...  Sridhar



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