[geeks] FireFox: Please Shut Up

[Michael Parson]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:43:48AM -0600, 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.

Did you restart FF when you chagned that?  I tried it, worked for me.

> 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.

Yeah, stuff like that has lead me to mute the sound on the system unless
I'm purposefully listening to something.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org