> #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 >>>> >>> -- 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/01445750-c61c-4b8f-a7df-26454320271dn%40googlegroups.com.
