[geeks] FireFox: Please Shut Up

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

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.

Otherwise, no idea.

> 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.

That's good quote material.

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