[geeks] FireFox: Please Shut Up

[Phil Stracchino]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Mon, 06 Mar 2006 @ 11:43 -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke said:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Interesting.  I never have sound.
> 
> Is this in Windows? If so, it might get its information from Windows sound
> settings.

I just tested text search in Firefox 1.5 on both this Linux machine and
on the Win2K machine nest to it.  On Linux, it's silent.  On Windows, I
get a sort of "chuff" sound when text search fails.

No, I don't see any way to disable it either.



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