On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Roland Koebler <rk-l...@simple-is-better.org> wrote: > - Name: > I installed firefox-esr, but the started Firefox called itself "Nightly". > I searched the mailinglist, and it looks like it is called "Nightly"
This is a branding issue. We could technically do what Debian did, i-e to use the release parameters with a different name. Another option for you it to use the version pre-built by Mozilla, which is available under the attribute firefox-bin. > - Data choices: > After starting Firefox, it tells me: > "Nightly automatically sends some data to Mozilla so that we can > improve your experience. [Choose What I Share]" > > When I click on "Choose What I Share", I get to the data-choices- > preferences-dialog (Preferences -> Advanced -> Data Choices), > but this dialog is empty. > > So, does the NixOS-Nightly-Firefox automatically send data? > Is there a way to prevent this? > And is this documented somewhere? I added telemetry data to Firefox lately, so I can tell you that by default telemetry is not sent on custom builds of Firefox. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance/Adding_a_new_Telemetry_probe#Setup_building You can check the content sent to Mozilla by browsing "about:telemetry". If you are still worried, you can browse "about:config" and search for "toolkit.telemetry.enabled". > - Parallel install of esr and newest version: > I would like to install both firefox and firefox-esr and access both > in the same environment (without switching environments). > Would it be possible to e.g. add a "firefox-esr"-executable-symlink by > firefox-esr, so that it works as follows? > - $ firefox > starts the newest version if both firefox and firefox-esr are installed, > or the newest or the esr version if only one is installed > - $ firefox-esr > always starts the esr-version 1/ The simplest way, is to use the nix-shell to run firefox and to make an alias to it: alias firefox="nix-shell -p firefox-bin --run firefox" But this method will not give you rollbacks. 2/ You can also install them in different user profile with the "-p" option of nix-env. 3/ Or create a new derivation which only creates a wrapper and "exec"-ute the binary that you want to start. -- Nicolas Pierron http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbpierron - http://nbp.name/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
