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allo- / ffprofile

A tool to create firefox profiles with personalized defaults.
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fixed about:config warning bool #213

Closed RaafatTurki closed 3 years ago

RaafatTurki commented 3 years ago

After using the thing I noticed that I'm still getting the about:config warning even though I have general.warnOnAboutConfig set to false in prefs.js, after a bit of search I figured that the setting is called browser.aboutConfig.showWarning on my firefox (82.0.2 64-bit).

I'll assume this worked on older versions of FF, I don't know if you'd want to set the right one depending on the version or maybe set them both to false in that way feel free to edit my PR.

allo- commented 3 years ago

Firefox 71 changed this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601899

I wonder if some versions automatically migrated the setting. I do not remember getting the warning again in my profiles.

RaafatTurki commented 3 years ago

Further research clarified that general.warnOnAboutConfig is for the xul version (FF 71-72) and browser.aboutConfig.showWarning is for the xhtml version (FF 73+) (the one I added)

both can be reached via the links below depending on your FF version FF 71-72 -> chrome://global/content/config.xul FF 73+ -> chrome://global/content/config.xhtml

The Bugzilla report states that it indeed is the HTML version that they're migrating to, However that means my PR effectively has broken this feature on FF 71-72 and fixed it on FF73+ hence why I'm revisiting this PR.

The best solution IMO would be to simply enable them both.

allo- commented 3 years ago

Yes and no. I am not really a fan of Mozilla changing such things all the time (and the new about:config is worse than the old one), but I think one cannot say the site generates more secure profiles and still target outdated Firefox versions.

Keeping such settings does not harm, but on the other hand is the site meant to keep the generated config short and understandable (in contrast to the many "paste this into your prefs.js to be more secure" lists). This means removing no longer supported options when we notice them is probably a good thing.