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I've recently made a similar (more modular) project which compiles various features and patches them into a Firefox profile. It can compile themes, hardening, u

I've recently made a similar (more modular) project which compiles various features and patches them into a Firefox profile. It can compile themes, hardening, userscripts, userstyles and more into a clean firefox profile, basically removing the bloat from firefox while still being fully customizable: https://github.com/explosion-scratch/firebuilder https://github.com/explosion-scratch/firebuilder

btown 2y ago
Really cool! Do you know if there's anything similar for Chrome?
- explosion-s 2y ago
  I don't think so, it's a lot harder to patch chrome because you'd need to recompile it. There is ungoogled-chromium but it doesn't add many features, mainly takes away the bloat. Unfortunately drm content is a bit finicky in ungoogled chromium. Firefox is great for modding because everything is contained in one profile folder, so one can simply make a new profile folder however they want and have the perfect browser
mnmalst 2y ago
This looks really great. One thing I have never seen done is having the url bar completely removed and put everything in the sidebar. That would really save some vertical space. Since you seem to know your way around the firefox sources, do you think that's possible?
- explosion-s 2y ago
  Im not sure - most of what my project does is compile multiple people's modifications together, I feel like I saw one such repo recently, I'll reply if I find it
  - mnmalst 2y ago
    Would appreciate it, haven't seen something like this yet.
- reubenmorais 2y ago
  I don't know what you mean by having the URL bar completely removed (how do you navigate?) but I use CSS to trim the top of my Firefox to look a bit neater with the Sideberry extension: https://gist.github.com/reuben/4afa453611abd7f1477429b2c001fa1d https://gist.github.com/reuben/4afa453611abd7f1477429b2c001f...
  - philsnow 2y ago
    Oh that's lovely, thank you, I didn't know it was possible to do.
  - mnmalst 2y ago
    I meant something like this browser does: https://arc.net/ https://arc.net/ where the urlbar and all the buttons of the navigation bar are in the sidebar as well, so you have more room vertically for the actual web content.
KennyBlanken 2y ago
Downloads/firebuilder-darwin-arm64 24334 | allowPositionals: true 24335 | }); 24336 | var PROFILE_PATH_CLI = args.positionals[2]; 24337 | var THIS_DIR2 = __dirname; 24338 | var MODULE_DIR2 = resolve4(THIS_DIR2, "modules"); 24339 | var OPTIONS = Object.fromEntries(readdirSync2(resolve4(MODULE_DIR2)).filter((i) => lstatSync2(join8(MODULE_DIR2, i)).isDirectory()).map((i) => ({ ^ ENOENT: No such file or directory errno: -2 syscall: "open" path: "/Users/tjs/Documents/.coding/firefox-profile-creator/modules" at /$bunfs/root/firebuilder-darwin-arm64:24339:34 Downloads/firebuilder-darwin-arm64 --help 24322 | import {parseArgs} from "util"; 24323 | import {homedir as homedir2} from "os"; 24324 | var __dirname = "/Users/tjs/Documents/.coding/firefox-profile-creator"; 24325 | var APP_PATH = join8("/Applications", "Firefox.app", "Contents", "MacOS", "firefox"); 24326 | var PROFILES_PATH = resolve4(homedir2(), "Library", "Application Support", "Firefox", "Profiles"); 24327 | var args = parseArgs({ args: Bun.argv, options: { launch: { type: "boolean" } }, allowPositionals: true }); ^ TypeError: Unknown option '--help'. To specify a positional argument starting with a '-', place it at the end of the command after '--', as in '-- "--help" code: "ERR_PARSE_ARGS_UNKNOWN_OPTION" at /$bunfs/root/firebuilder-darwin-arm64:24327:12 Little documentation on how to use it, either...
- explosion-s 2y ago
  Somehow it has hard coded something wrong - I'm so sorry I literally just tested it. Actually moving into college tomorrow but I might be able to fix it the next day. Try cloning and 'bun run cli.js' in the meantime? I'll fix asap
- explosion-s 2y ago
  Update: After a tough 24 minutes I have fixed the bug! Apparently it's an issue with old versions of Bun so I had to upgrade, but I also added a `--help` flag and usage.

btown 2y ago

Really cool! Do you know if there's anything similar for Chrome?

explosion-s 2y ago
I don't think so, it's a lot harder to patch chrome because you'd need to recompile it. There is ungoogled-chromium but it doesn't add many features, mainly takes away the bloat. Unfortunately drm content is a bit finicky in ungoogled chromium. Firefox is great for modding because everything is contained in one profile folder, so one can simply make a new profile folder however they want and have the perfect browser

mnmalst 2y ago

This looks really great. One thing I have never seen done is having the url bar completely removed and put everything in the sidebar. That would really save some vertical space. Since you seem to know your way around the firefox sources, do you think that's possible?

explosion-s 2y ago
Im not sure - most of what my project does is compile multiple people's modifications together, I feel like I saw one such repo recently, I'll reply if I find it
- mnmalst 2y ago
  Would appreciate it, haven't seen something like this yet.
reubenmorais 2y ago
I don't know what you mean by having the URL bar completely removed (how do you navigate?) but I use CSS to trim the top of my Firefox to look a bit neater with the Sideberry extension: https://gist.github.com/reuben/4afa453611abd7f1477429b2c001fa1d https://gist.github.com/reuben/4afa453611abd7f1477429b2c001f...
- philsnow 2y ago
  Oh that's lovely, thank you, I didn't know it was possible to do.
- mnmalst 2y ago
  I meant something like this browser does: https://arc.net/ https://arc.net/ where the urlbar and all the buttons of the navigation bar are in the sidebar as well, so you have more room vertically for the actual web content.

KennyBlanken 2y ago

Downloads/firebuilder-darwin-arm64 24334 | allowPositionals: true 24335 | }); 24336 | var PROFILE_PATH_CLI = args.positionals[2]; 24337 | var THIS_DIR2 = __dirname; 24338 | var MODULE_DIR2 = resolve4(THIS_DIR2, "modules"); 24339 | var OPTIONS = Object.fromEntries(readdirSync2(resolve4(MODULE_DIR2)).filter((i) => lstatSync2(join8(MODULE_DIR2, i)).isDirectory()).map((i) => ({ ^ ENOENT: No such file or directory errno: -2 syscall: "open" path: "/Users/tjs/Documents/.coding/firefox-profile-creator/modules" at /$bunfs/root/firebuilder-darwin-arm64:24339:34 Downloads/firebuilder-darwin-arm64 --help 24322 | import {parseArgs} from "util"; 24323 | import {homedir as homedir2} from "os"; 24324 | var __dirname = "/Users/tjs/Documents/.coding/firefox-profile-creator"; 24325 | var APP_PATH = join8("/Applications", "Firefox.app", "Contents", "MacOS", "firefox"); 24326 | var PROFILES_PATH = resolve4(homedir2(), "Library", "Application Support", "Firefox", "Profiles"); 24327 | var args = parseArgs({ args: Bun.argv, options: { launch: { type: "boolean" } }, allowPositionals: true }); ^ TypeError: Unknown option '--help'. To specify a positional argument starting with a '-', place it at the end of the command after '--', as in '-- "--help" code: "ERR_PARSE_ARGS_UNKNOWN_OPTION" at /$bunfs/root/firebuilder-darwin-arm64:24327:12 Little documentation on how to use it, either...

explosion-s 2y ago
Somehow it has hard coded something wrong - I'm so sorry I literally just tested it. Actually moving into college tomorrow but I might be able to fix it the next day. Try cloning and 'bun run cli.js' in the meantime? I'll fix asap
explosion-s 2y ago
Update: After a tough 24 minutes I have fixed the bug! Apparently it's an issue with old versions of Bun so I had to upgrade, but I also added a `--help` flag and usage.