I might be interested in contributing code for this, but I'm not sure how to package it.
On Friday, January 29, 2021 at 2:43:20 AM UTC-8 Emma Borhanian wrote: > You can use an autoconfig > <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-using-autoconfig> > file in the firefox-esr install directory in the template to control > everything except default search, which mozilla has added a bunch of > protections to in order to prevent default search page hijacking. You can > use this to disable "first run" welcome tabs, etc. > You probably also want to put privacy/hardening settings in the autoconfig > file. > > To change the default search page you actually need two mechanisms: > 1. Reverse engineer the way the firefox-esr directory configures default > search. > 2. Reverse engineer the way the profile directory configures default > search. > > You need both because: > #1 will be undone every time you update firefox. If you run firefox before > re-doing it, the change will be cached in your profile directory, and > method #1 will no longer work for you because the profile will > #2 doesn't work unless you already have a profile directory. A startup > script that ran on dispvm creation that both created a profile directory > and modified it using #2 would allow you to avoid needing #1, but it seemed > cleaner to me to just do #1 as well. > > #1 requires monkey patching modules/SearchService.jsm to not fetch the > default search from mozilla's servers, and changing the search default in > chrome/browser/search-extensions/list.json. > #2 is documented here > https://blog.onee3.org/2018/04/manually-add-a-search-engine-to-firefox-quantum/ > On Friday, January 29, 2021 at 1:58:22 AM UTC-8 Josefa Hays wrote: > >> I use dispvm's all the time (both Fedora and Debian dispvms). Thus, I am >> quite annoyed to see varios "first run" issues every time i start >> Firefox in a disp-vm. I would like to perform the following changes in >> the template-vms, preferably from CLI, so I don't have to start Firefox >> in the template: >> >> * disable "first run" wellcome tabs >> * change startpage to https://duckduckgo.com >> * In Fedora-30 dispvm: disable the bookmark-bar in the top >> >> I've been poking around in ~/.mozilla/ files and configs, but so far no >> luck. >> Anybody got this working who can share their configs? (Maybe we could >> put a guide on in wiki/docs? I guess it is quite a common "problem" for >> people that use disp-vm's on a regular basis?) >> >> Best regards, >> Jo >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/f9f2ec05-8256-485b-8e82-866ab63586c4n%40googlegroups.com.
