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> Besides those, I don't understand what I'd want to sync. I think it's useful to sync extensions, and personal configurations. For example, I have a userchr
by lelanthran 3y ago
> Besides those, I don't understand what I'd want to sync.
I think it's useful to sync extensions, and personal configurations.
For example, I have a userchrome.css (or something like that) file that, for the news.ycombinator.com domain enforces a maximum width on paragraphs, so that on my really really wide screen I don't get 900 characters per line, I get 78 or so.
Without sync, I simply copy the files to the correct profile whenever I buy a new machine. With sync, I wouldn't have to.
- flexagoon 3y agoI don't think Firefox Sync manages userChrome though. I currently manage those files together with the rest of my dotfiles with Chezmoi: https://github.com/flexagoon/dotfiles/blob/main/.chezmoiexternals/firefox.toml https://github.com/flexagoon/dotfiles/blob/main/.chezmoiexte... https://github.com/flexagoon/dotfiles/tree/main/dot_config/firefox https://github.com/flexagoon/dotfiles/tree/main/dot_config/f...
- lelanthran 3y ago> I don't think Firefox Sync manages userChrome though. Sadly, no. This is one of the bigger QoL features of a modern browser - automatically lock the important CSS declarations for specific domains to make things readable and usable for sites you visit the most. I use it to make sites readable (like HN), but there's some other things I think you can do. I mean, if you had a list of ad-serving domains (typically ads are served from a different domain to the content), you could set the ad divs to be invisible in some way (`width: 1px`, for example) and the anti-adblocking javascript wouldn't detect any adblocking going on. Autoplaying videos bothering you? Set the width and height for all video tags on specific domains to 1px. With CSS getting every more powerful, it opens up a range of opprtunities.