The brand new Firefox add-on What’s That Preference closes this gap, by linking preferences of the web browser to entries at Mozillazine. It should be noted that the site does not cover all Firefox preferences, but for those that it does, it is usually the best source of information.

The extension adds an entry to the right-click context menu in the advanced Firefox configuration listing. You can open that page by entering about:config in the Firefox address bar to load the preference listing. First time users need to confirm the warning message before they can start making changes to the configuration.

Just right-click a preference and select the MozillaZine reference link that is displayed in the context menu. This opens the corresponding MozillaZine page in a new tab in Firefox.

You find detailed information about the selected parameter if the entry exists on MozillaZine, which it does for most of the standard preferences available under about:config.

What’s That Preference is a handy extension for users who make changes regularly to the advanced preferences of the web browser. It can save lots of web searching for preference definitions.

The extension is available for all versions of Firefox 4 and newer. It can be directly installed over at the official Mozilla Firefox add-on repository.

Some users who are experiencing bugs or are concerned about security might want to have the updated version as soon as possible to fix bugs and security holes as soon as possible. The following link is to an ftp site that offers firefox 2.0.1 for all supported operating systems and languages.

If you want to be fast go get it know, otherwise wait one more day and get it the regular way. If you are interested about the fixes in this version check out the mozillazine website which lists more than 150 fixes to firefox 2.0. Of note is that 42 bugs that crashed firefox, 3 memory leaks and 4 privacy related bugs have been fixed.