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Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:

> Doing configuration through (sub)menus is quite cumbersome.  State of
> the art is to offer some major setting through menu toggle line ("Enable
> Javascript" in galeon) and offer the rest through "Preferences..."
> dialog screens (a "notebook" or "tabs").

Would a subset of the M-x customize-browse <ret> tree do the trick?