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For those who want to use Firefox with added security and privacy there is Arkenfox (github.com)

submitted 3 months ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I prefer Librewolf as it is easier and simpler to use

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[–] MrOtherGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What I'm trying to point out here, is that prefs declared in user.js (whether they are put there using scripting or otherwise) cannot be persistently modified at runtime from within Firefox. That may or may not be a huge problem, but something to be aware of.

[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I understand. I am pretty sure that is incorrect. With an Arkenfox profile, I have modified my prefs in about:config and retained those changes persistently.

[–] MrOtherGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

You can modify prefs at runtime and have them persist - except those prefs that are also declared in user.js. The problem arises when folks apply whole list of prefs via user.js from one repository or another, which could be hundreds, without acknowledging what prefs they set and without checking what those prefs do. If they then have some reason to change any one of those prefs - their change won't persist if that particular pref is in user.js

A thing you could do is to just start Firefox once with a user.js file, and then remove that file. On that single startup Firefox sets prefs according to user.js, and all those changes persist to prefs.js when Firefox is shutdown. You are then able to also persist changes to all prefs because by removing user.js Firefox won't try to override the your session saved prefs with user.js at startup.