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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Correctly named config value</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/01/11/350680.aspx</link><description>One feature of Firefox I find amusing/neat is the about:config URL. It opens a window letting you change the values for any setting for Firefox itself, or your installed extensions. While I had it open for some general spelunking and changing of network</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>re: Correctly named config value</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/01/11/350680.aspx#350699</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:36:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:350699</guid><dc:creator>russ</dc:creator><description>The value passed into the function (as set by the config value) is for the simple Ceasar cypher; in this case 13 means the file in question has been ROT-13'd.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In theory a vendor could brand the browser with a custom config, then ROT-X it and use obscure_value to set X. The average (l)user wouldn't know the difference between that and strong encryption.</description></item><item><title>re: Correctly named config value</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/01/11/350680.aspx#350713</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:54:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:350713</guid><dc:creator>Kent Sharkey</dc:creator><description>Cool. Thank you, Russ. I guess the curious name is to avoid conflicts?</description></item><item><title>re: Correctly named config value</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/01/11/350680.aspx#350829</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:49:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:350829</guid><dc:creator>travis</dc:creator><description>Naming it obscure_value sure makes it stand out though.</description></item></channel></rss>