Comments on: Turning off the ‘friendly HTTP error messages’ in Firefox http://www.thinklemon.com/weblog/2005/06/22/turning-off-the-friendly-http-error-messages-in-firefox/ I think there used to be a tagline about (tag)soup here... anyway... Wed, 18 May 2011 01:10:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe Green http://www.thinklemon.com/weblog/2005/06/22/turning-off-the-friendly-http-error-messages-in-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-407097 Joe Green Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:23:21 +0000 http://www.thinklemon.com/?p=52#comment-407097 I applied the change to turn off the "friendly" messages (what could be more friendly than 404 or 500?!) and closed FF but when I tried to restart it, I was told it was already running and I had to reboot. I also still get the messages this change was meant to disable. Sigh. I applied the change to turn off the “friendly” messages (what could be more friendly than 404 or 500?!) and closed FF but when I tried to restart it, I was told it was already running and I had to reboot. I also still get the messages this change was meant to disable. Sigh.

]]> By: Caspar http://www.thinklemon.com/weblog/2005/06/22/turning-off-the-friendly-http-error-messages-in-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-11248 Caspar Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:45:22 +0000 http://www.thinklemon.com/?p=52#comment-11248 On a sidenote: Roachfiend.com has a post on <a href="http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/08/20/hack-the-crap-out-of-firefox-for-some-useful-error-pages/" rel="nofollow">hacking Firefox' error pages</a>. But that's probably not for the faint of heart. ;-) On a sidenote: Roachfiend.com has a post on hacking Firefox’ error pages. But that’s probably not for the faint of heart. ;-)

]]> By: Caspar http://www.thinklemon.com/weblog/2005/06/22/turning-off-the-friendly-http-error-messages-in-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-11246 Caspar Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:26:42 +0000 http://www.thinklemon.com/?p=52#comment-11246 This setting was only valid in the Fx1.0 days. When all you got was an alert box stating Firefox couldn't do something, instead of telling exactly what went wrong. Since 1.5 it's the other way around. Now you'll get an error page instead of a dialog box. (Setting it to false still reverts back to the dialog.) If Firefox cannot resolve the address (spike) it'll do an 'Im feeling lucky' on Google. That's why you'll end up on 'spiketv'. To tell Firefox to look on your localhost no matter what, you'll need to do some rerouting on your system (I assume). On Windows you'll need to alter the HOSTS-file and tell the OS 'spike' is '127.0.0.1:(port)'. But look that up as it's too long a story to post here. :-) This setting was only valid in the Fx1.0 days. When all you got was an alert box stating Firefox couldn’t do something, instead of telling exactly what went wrong. Since 1.5 it’s the other way around. Now you’ll get an error page instead of a dialog box. (Setting it to false still reverts back to the dialog.)

If Firefox cannot resolve the address (spike) it’ll do an ‘Im feeling lucky’ on Google. That’s why you’ll end up on ‘spiketv’. To tell Firefox to look on your localhost no matter what, you’ll need to do some rerouting on your system (I assume). On Windows you’ll need to alter the HOSTS-file and tell the OS ‘spike’ is ’127.0.0.1:(port)’. But look that up as it’s too long a story to post here. :-)

]]> By: s http://www.thinklemon.com/weblog/2005/06/22/turning-off-the-friendly-http-error-messages-in-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-11242 s Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:35:32 +0000 http://www.thinklemon.com/?p=52#comment-11242 I tried this in Firefox and it has always been set to true, which is the default. However, I still get the friendly error messages. On another note, if I enter a URL (i.e spike), (which runs off to my localhost spike proxy), and the proxy is down, instaed it looks up on Google and sends the request to spiketv.com (or net), which is rather sad. Anyone know how to solve this one as well? Cheers,s I tried this in Firefox and it has always been set to true, which is the default. However, I still get the friendly error messages.

On another note, if I enter a URL (i.e spike), (which runs off to my localhost spike proxy), and the proxy is down, instaed it looks up on Google and sends the request to spiketv.com (or net), which is rather sad.

Anyone know how to solve this one as well?

Cheers,s

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