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 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/5a021d48-361c-473d-a5ef-c9127b48a7d0n%40googlegroups.com.
