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The problem I find with Firefox is that options in about:config are too stateful. You can't use user.js as a regular dotfile such as .emacs, .vimrc or .muttrc.

by nextos 8y ago

The problem I find with Firefox is that options in about:config are too stateful. You can't use user.js as a regular dotfile such as .emacs, .vimrc or .muttrc. That is, once you set an option you need to manually unset it. I wished they introduced a more sane mechanism. Besides, there is no way to programmatically declare you want to use some addons. IMHO, all this makes maintaining relatively complex user configurations very costly.

zipperhead 8y ago
Yes, I find the about:config option stickiness behaviour isn't intuitive. I am guessing that a lot of people don't realize that if you set options in user.js they stay set until you manually unset them, even if you remove the user.js file.
Yoric 8y ago
I don't understand, what would you want, exactly? Options that can be set only for the duration of the current session?
- nextos 8y ago
  Yes. In Emacs, if I setq some variable it doesn't stay set forever. In particular, not after I remove the setq statement.
  - vngzs 8y ago
    A hack around this would be to remove things by specifically unsetting them in the user.js file, much as one would do to remove a previously installed package using configuration management software.
Dylan16807 8y ago
You can't use user.js that way. You can use about:config that way. In about:config, resetting to default is easier than editing.
dngray 8y ago
I use https://yadm.io https://yadm.io to manage my dotfiles. What I did was created a fork, ie https://github.com/dngray/ghacks-user.js/tree/fx-desktop https://github.com/dngray/ghacks-user.js/tree/fx-desktop Then I added it as a submodule, ie "yadm submodule add ..." as they mention here https://stackoverflow.com/a/18797720 https://stackoverflow.com/a/18797720 Yadm allows for a bootstrap[0], so I simply do: ln -sf ~/.config/firefox/chrome/userChrome.css ~/.mozilla/firefox/$FIREFOX_PROFILE.default/chrome/userChrome.css git --git-dir=/home/{{ YADM_USER }}/.config/firefox/ghacks-user.js/.git --work-tree=/home/{{ YADM_USER }}/.config/firefox/ghacks-user.js checkout fx-desktop cp ~/.config/firefox/ghacks-user.js/user.js ~/.mozilla/firefox/$FIREFOX_PROFILE.default/user.js Note the Jinja2[1] syntax there. [0]: https://yadm.io/docs/bootstrap https://yadm.io/docs/bootstrap [1]: https://yadm.io/docs/alternates https://yadm.io/docs/alternates

by nextos 8y ago

zipperhead 8y ago

Yes, I find the about:config option stickiness behaviour isn't intuitive. I am guessing that a lot of people don't realize that if you set options in user.js they stay set until you manually unset them, even if you remove the user.js file.

Yoric 8y ago

I don't understand, what would you want, exactly? Options that can be set only for the duration of the current session?

nextos 8y ago
Yes. In Emacs, if I setq some variable it doesn't stay set forever. In particular, not after I remove the setq statement.
- vngzs 8y ago
  A hack around this would be to remove things by specifically unsetting them in the user.js file, much as one would do to remove a previously installed package using configuration management software.

Dylan16807 8y ago

You can't use user.js that way. You can use about:config that way. In about:config, resetting to default is easier than editing.

dngray 8y ago

I use https://yadm.io https://yadm.io to manage my dotfiles. What I did was created a fork, ie https://github.com/dngray/ghacks-user.js/tree/fx-desktop https://github.com/dngray/ghacks-user.js/tree/fx-desktop Then I added it as a submodule, ie "yadm submodule add ..." as they mention here https://stackoverflow.com/a/18797720 https://stackoverflow.com/a/18797720 Yadm allows for a bootstrap[0], so I simply do: ln -sf ~/.config/firefox/chrome/userChrome.css ~/.mozilla/firefox/$FIREFOX_PROFILE.default/chrome/userChrome.css git --git-dir=/home/{{ YADM_USER }}/.config/firefox/ghacks-user.js/.git --work-tree=/home/{{ YADM_USER }}/.config/firefox/ghacks-user.js checkout fx-desktop cp ~/.config/firefox/ghacks-user.js/user.js ~/.mozilla/firefox/$FIREFOX_PROFILE.default/user.js Note the Jinja2[1] syntax there. [0]: https://yadm.io/docs/bootstrap https://yadm.io/docs/bootstrap [1]: https://yadm.io/docs/alternates https://yadm.io/docs/alternates