Is there any way to turn off the error message popup, which shows up whenever KM can't load a website? It would be nice to have this the same way as in the new FF, which just an error website, instead of a popup.

Thanks for help.

Go to about:config, look for browser.xul.error_pages.enabled and set it to "true".

Actually, Drahken... I had a lot of trouble with that and, for some reason, setting that true did nothing (the setting did not seem to want to stick).
I had go to (Tools > Advanced Preferences > Prefs...), close K-Meleon while leaving prefs.js open... then manually find/alter the following setting in prefs.js:

user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", false);

and set it to

user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);

Then I saved it, closed it and opened up K-Meleon and it seemed to work fine.

Brian

I don't know what the problem is, but I don't have that entry in about:config, nor in the prefs file. I also tried to search for "error" in the about:config, but no luck there...

Any ideas?

If a pref is not present? ( You can add prefs if missing )


go about:config

right click: there will be a menue that offers "new" - select that:

In our case here: You want to create a new "boolean" with the name of:

browser.xul.error_pages.enabled

and continue to do the settings as mentioned by all the good folks here.

// but this speciffic should be present normally
- so i am not sure if browser or profile is damaged?

Simply add the line

user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);

to your user.js.

@Drahken: Thank you for this tip!

// but this speciffic should be present normally
- so i am not sure if browser or profile is damaged?

No. No damage. This pref seems to be not present by default. It wasn't in mine.

In the newer unofficial releases (like the CFF series), it's enabled by default.

Any time you don't already have a certain pref available, just add it in one of 3 ways: on the about:config screen, in the prefs.js file, or in the user.js file. (Personally, I find the user.js file to be nothing but a hassle.)

Brian: When you're having trouble getting about:config settings to save like that, you probaably have conflicting locations set for your settings directory. Check about:config (or probably prefs.js would be better) and see what it says for the following 2 settings:
kmeleon.general.profileDir
kmeleon.general.settingsDir
Now go to prefs->general->settings directory and see what it says. All 3 of these should match. If one or more is different, it will cause problems trying to save your settings.

thx for info kko - never noticed this one missing but... there is always a first time.

Oh, alright... well, that was with another build I used a month or two ago... Mhmm.

Brian

I added the value in about:config and it seems to be working.
Thanks a lot for help.