> Relevant preferences for start page:
I meant for disabling startup notices.
On Friday, January 29, 2021 at 3:18:56 AM UTC-8 Emma Borhanian wrote:
> (I retyped all of this so hopefully I didn't typo any of it)
>
> Relevant preferences for start page:
> defaultPref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.aboutHome.enabled", false);
> defaultPref("datareporting.policy.firstRunURL", "");
> defaultPref("trailhead.firstrun.branches", "nofirstrun-privacy");
>
> Settings you may want to save:
> defaultPref("general.warnOnAboutConfig", false);
> defaultPref("browser.tabs.warnOnClose", false);
>
> Disable Pocket:
> defaultPref("extensions.pocket.enabled", false);
> defaultPref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories",
> false);
> defaultPref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.section.highlights.includePocket",
>
> false);
> defaultPref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored", false);
>
> Disable snippets by firefox:
> defaultPref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.snippets", false);
>
> The rest is privacy/security stuff, which should probably be copied from
> the union of 1. firefox specific guides 2. whatever tor browser does. Of
> note is whether the URL bar and/or search bar send what you type anywhere.
>
> Another decision is whether to "lock" preferences vs just changing the
> default.
> On Friday, January 29, 2021 at 3:00:47 AM UTC-8 Emma Borhanian wrote:
>
>>
>> > #1 requires monkey patching
>>
>> I thought of this as "monkey patching", because I automated altering the
>> file with sed, but I guess it's not technically monkey patching if you're
>> changing the source file.
>> On Friday, January 29, 2021 at 2:50:41 AM UTC-8 Emma Borhanian wrote:
>>
>>> This is an arms race though and eventually mozilla will make any
>>> particular methods of overriding the default search not work. It's really
>>> annoying.
>>>
>>> I looked into using other browsers but IceCat
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat> seems to not receive
>>> security updates frequently enough to be a viable secure browser. It seems
>>> we are stuck with firefox and playing this arms race game for setting
>>> default search forever.
>>>
>>> On Friday, January 29, 2021 at 2:47:48 AM UTC-8 Emma Borhanian wrote:
>>>
>>>> I might be interested in contributing code for this, but I'm not sure
>>>> how to package it.
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, January 29, 2021 at 2:43:20 AM UTC-8 Emma Borhanian wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You can use an autoconfig
>>>>> <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-using-autoconfig>
>>>>>
>>>>> file in the firefox-esr install directory in the template to control
>>>>> everything except default search, which mozilla has added a bunch of
>>>>> protections to in order to prevent default search page hijacking. You can
>>>>> use this to disable "first run" welcome tabs, etc.
>>>>> You probably also want to put privacy/hardening settings in the
>>>>> autoconfig file.
>>>>>
>>>>> To change the default search page you actually need two mechanisms:
>>>>> 1. Reverse engineer the way the firefox-esr directory configures
>>>>> default search.
>>>>> 2. Reverse engineer the way the profile directory configures default
>>>>> search.
>>>>>
>>>>> You need both because:
>>>>> #1 will be undone every time you update firefox. If you run firefox
>>>>> before re-doing it, the change will be cached in your profile directory,
>>>>> and method #1 will no longer work for you because the profile will
>>>>> #2 doesn't work unless you already have a profile directory. A startup
>>>>> script that ran on dispvm creation that both created a profile directory
>>>>> and modified it using #2 would allow you to avoid needing #1, but it
>>>>> seemed
>>>>> cleaner to me to just do #1 as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> #1 requires monkey patching modules/SearchService.jsm to not fetch the
>>>>> default search from mozilla's servers, and changing the search default in
>>>>> chrome/browser/search-extensions/list.json.
>>>>> #2 is documented here
>>>>> https://blog.onee3.org/2018/04/manually-add-a-search-engine-to-firefox-quantum/
>>>>> On Friday, January 29, 2021 at 1:58:22 AM UTC-8 Josefa Hays wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I use dispvm's all the time (both Fedora and Debian dispvms). Thus, I
>>>>>> am
>>>>>> quite annoyed to see varios "first run" issues every time i start
>>>>>> Firefox in a disp-vm. I would like to perform the following changes
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> the template-vms, preferably from CLI, so I don't have to start
>>>>>> Firefox
>>>>>> in the template:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * disable "first run" wellcome tabs
>>>>>> * change startpage to https://duckduckgo.com
>>>>>> * In Fedora-30 dispvm: disable the bookmark-bar in the top
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been poking around in ~/.mozilla/ files and configs, but so far
>>>>>> no
>>>>>> luck.
>>>>>> Anybody got this working who can share their configs? (Maybe we could
>>>>>> put a guide on in wiki/docs? I guess it is quite a common "problem"
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> people that use disp-vm's on a regular basis?)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> Jo
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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