Disabling the Aero Peek feature in Firefox 3.6 Beta 1

1 Nov
2009

Yesterday we informed you guys about the availability of Firefox 3.6 Beta 1.  One of the exciting things about Firefox 3.6 is its utilization of the cool Aero Peek feature in Windows 7. Aero Peek is a feature in  Windows 7 and Windows Vista that enables you to see  the contents of a program by just moving the mouse over the taskbar as shown in the picture below. This feature is cool but what if you want to disable this feature to optimize Firefox performance. Well you can do that. We’ve listed the steps that show you how to disable Aero Peek integration in Firefo 3.6 Beta 1.

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Disable Aero Peek in Firefox 3.6 Beta 1

  1. Type about:config in the address bar.
  2. Navigate to browser.taskbar.previews.enable ( or You can copy and paste this name in the Filter bar) property.
  3. Double click on it to set the value to false. As an alternate, just select the specified preference  and press Enter key to set its value to false

6 Responses to Disabling the Aero Peek feature in Firefox 3.6 Beta 1

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Daniel

November 14th, 2009 at 6:11 pm

Thanks my friend. I was looking for it. I really don’t like aeropeek in browsers. It takes longer to find the windows I want.

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Muhammad Ali

November 14th, 2009 at 11:12 pm

You are always welcome.

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Rick Johnson

November 19th, 2009 at 10:52 am

This is now disabled in 3.6b3 by default, but can be enabled if you know where to find this setting.

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Muhammad Ali

November 19th, 2009 at 11:20 am

Thanks for reading the post

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