Scott Weeks wrote:

How'd you do that? I use FF on FreeBSD, but parhaps there're similar settings.

Since a few people asked. in the url line: about:config This is the magic incantation that gets you a page with just about all configuration settings. you can serach for a particular setting in the "filter". To disable the google searching, look for the string "keyword". set keyword.enabled to "false". You can alco zap the value of keyword.URL To get a button to easily enable and disable javascript: http://prefbar.mozdev.org/ This allows you to put up a whole series of buttons such as java, images, javascript, kill cache, and a "UA" selection box to fake other browsers and much more. Another extension is the Web Develoer extension: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ It gives you plenty of options, including disabling CSS, viewing source etc etc. Good support available in the mozilla.support.* newsgroups (such as mozilla.support.firefox). If you are on an ISP that have cut down NNTP, it is available on the NNTP server: news.mozilla.org