HOW TO Quickie: Change Firefox Throbber Link

November 21, 2005 · 6 comments

You know that cool little loading icon on the top right in the Firefox browser? Apparently it’s called a throbber and you can change the link it goes to when you click on it.

Firefox Throbber


1) Type about:config in your Firefox address bar and hit enter.

2) In the Filter box, type browser.throbber.url (although, just typing throb should suffice).

3) Under Preference Name, there should be a listing for browser.throbber.url. Select the listing and then right click > modify. Change the value of the URL in the text field, hit OK and you’re done.

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February 23, 2006 at 10:16 am

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1 Jeff November 23, 2005 at 12:37 am

What is the benefit of changing the throbber?

What URL would you change it to, instead of the default?

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2 Paul Stamatiou November 23, 2005 at 12:49 am

It’s just a little customization tweak. I changed it to a bookmark I frequent, such as my Mint stats page. It’s also a great place to hide a bookmark if you don’t want others to know about it.

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3 Jeff November 23, 2005 at 12:51 am

Cool. I get it now! Very discreet…

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4 Will November 29, 2005 at 8:50 am

Cool indeed! Yet another reason to love Firefox.

side note: I tried adding multiple URLs, like you can do for the home page, so that each URL opens in a new tab (separate URLs with | character) and it didn’t work =(

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5 La Bella November 30, 2005 at 4:42 pm

Wow!
Thanks for sharing this!
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