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Re: Firefox equivalent of SeaMonkey's pref.js



On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 11:05:17AM +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> On 20/12/2019 10:52, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >As I date from Netscape era I much prefer SeaMonkey.
> >However when I did a reasonably default install of Debian 9.8 I got
> >Firefox 60.5.0esr .
> >Due to *OPERATOR ERROR*, I mangled a preference.
> >On the mozilla.general list I was told to edit pref.js .
> >For SeaMonkey I have no problem.
> >For Firefox where/what is equivalent file/directory? ?? ??? ???? ??????
> >TIA
> 
> prefs.js (with an "s"):
> 
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/$PROFILE/prefs.js
> 
> where $PROFILE is the generated profile directory. If you have
> multiple profiles, you can find all instances of prefs.js with:

Yes, but read the comments in this file: if you don't want your
edits "magically mangled" by firefox, resort to "user.js" (create
one  if not existent). Most probably FF will overwrite prefx.js
o
Cheers
-- tomáswilly-nilly.

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