Firefox: маленькие хитрости

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One of the most famous methods of torture is Chinese water torture. In this torture a tied person is placed under a bucket filled with water with a tiny hole in the bottom. Water is slowly dripped on to a person's forehead, eventually driving the victim insane.

Software development is not an easy task, and often after a painful process of writing a program developers feel they should share their pains with users, so they put a part of own sufferings onto the shoulders of users in a method similar to the Chinese water torture - blinking cursors.

Fortunately, programmers are not insensitive torturers, and sometimes they provide an option in their programs to turn blinking cursers off. But often these options are not documented, and are not easily accessible.

This page was created with the aim to collect in one place all methods for disabling cursor blinking in the most popular operating systems and applications. If you know how to turn blinking off in a program not listed here, please send precise instructions at the mail address you can find at the bottom of this page.
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Make sure you have started Firefox at least once, so that you have a profile in ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.xxx/. Go to about:config in your browser, or alternatively, edit the prefs.js file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.xxx/, where xxx are letters or numbers. Throughout the about:config dialog, or in the prefs.js file you have to insert / edit the following lines as shown below:

  about:config, New -> Integer, ui.caretBlinkTime 0

or put in your user.js:

  user_pref("ui.caretBlinkTime", 0);

See Mozilla Customization for more information.

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