2y ago

About:config saving in account settings

Is there a add-on or something to store my about:config settings in cloud so when i distrohop i dont have to set it manually?

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yeah, the firefox account. it doesn't save everything sadly:( not even close.
you could also backup the data directly, you can find what account you're using and where to find it in about:account
- find it in about:account
  You mean about:profiles or about:support ?
Just keep your home directory on a separate partition and then keep it when you distro hop.
- The "just" is doing a lot of work here. This stuff really needs to be easier for ordinary users.
  
  Compared to all the gotchas with sync in several directions learning and setting up partitioning is literally super-easy.
Put the changes in a user.js file in your Firefox profile directory (the same one that probably already has prefs.js and logins.js).
Use this format (same as about:config):

user_pref("dom.security.https_only_mode", true); user_pref("ui.systemUsesDarkTheme", 1);
Then sync or backup the whole directory, excluding the "cache" subdirectories to save space.
(Pet peeve: Firefox, please use $HOME/.cache/ like every other app!)
You might try losing everything but the .json and .sqlite files. Have not checked, but that is probably enough. Only missing paths are regenerated when you launch Firefox.
- (Pet peeve: Firefox, please use $HOME/.cache/ like every other app!)
  set browser.cache.disk.parent_directory to /home/<user>/.cache/firefox
  note: if you use flatpak you might need to allow access to this directory
  
  Thanks. This spurred some research and I decided to disable the disk cache entirely instead:
  
  user_pref("browser.cache.disk.enable", false); user_pref("browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", false); user_pref("browser.cache.offline.enable", false); user_pref("browser.cache.memory.enable", true): user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 512000);
  Seems an easy way to avoid the SSD churn and syncing issues, since today's fast internet connections make disk caching less useful. That may be wrong but so far it seems as fast as ever.
Use Nix.

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