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Improved Firefox user-settings and default browser

December 17, 2023 — BarryK

I think that it was about 9 months ago, version 112, that a new path for global setting preferences for Firefox, in /etc/firefox/default/pref. I have started to move to using this, see commit:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/c6b11d452ed559c5aad6c8117211dd7f43b5ad6f

Reference:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1170092

There are some issues with setting and determining the default web browser, especially for apps that run non-root. The 'mimeapps.list' file has been created to help fix this:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/1bff80f891d25d7178830628e2db8f2b27a491ad   

Tags: easy