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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 1017468" data-attributes="member: 78686"><p>It's simple. You create a user.js file in your Firefox profile folder (eg: C:\Users\*UserName*\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\****.default-release) and fill it with changes that you wanna make to your Firefox. Every/almost every setting of Firefox can be configured via about:config. There are even many hidden flags that are not even present in about:config that can be used via the user.js configuration.</p><p>By default, Firefox has a file named pref.js file in the profile directory, where it keeps all its configurations. This file should never be tampered with. But for users, Firefox gives us the option to have our own config file which is this the user.js file. It's not present in the folder by default. You have to create it by your own. Any changes present in the user.js file is automatically put into pref.js file by Firefox.</p><p>So instead of having to change your about:config flags manually, you put your changes into the user.js file and it will work the same. Later let's say if you want to remove multiple about:config flags then you just remove it from your user.js file. If you want to restore to stock settings excluding browser data, you simply delete the user.js file from Firefox profile instead of changing all flags manually from about:config. So, it's a simple way to personalize your Firefox.</p><p>You can paste this user.js file into some other PC's Firefox profile folder and you will have your settings in that Firefox in a second. So it's an easy way to personalize and backup your Firefox preferences/settings/configurations. Directly making changes to about:config makes that change permanent and saves it into pref.js but changes made via user.js will work as long as the file is present in the profile directory.</p><p>I lost my enriched user.js file like 2 years ago and didn't make one again until last night. I made some not too harden changes here initially. Might add more later if necessary. You can have a look at this to have an idea. I even put this in alphabetical order, similar to the pref.js file. Any preference you're not familiar with, just do a google search or any other search engine to know what it does.</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://github.com/SeriousHoax/AnythingWindows/blob/main/user.js[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 1017468, member: 78686"] It's simple. You create a user.js file in your Firefox profile folder (eg: C:\Users\*UserName*\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\****.default-release) and fill it with changes that you wanna make to your Firefox. Every/almost every setting of Firefox can be configured via about:config. There are even many hidden flags that are not even present in about:config that can be used via the user.js configuration. By default, Firefox has a file named pref.js file in the profile directory, where it keeps all its configurations. This file should never be tampered with. But for users, Firefox gives us the option to have our own config file which is this the user.js file. It's not present in the folder by default. You have to create it by your own. Any changes present in the user.js file is automatically put into pref.js file by Firefox. So instead of having to change your about:config flags manually, you put your changes into the user.js file and it will work the same. Later let's say if you want to remove multiple about:config flags then you just remove it from your user.js file. If you want to restore to stock settings excluding browser data, you simply delete the user.js file from Firefox profile instead of changing all flags manually from about:config. So, it's a simple way to personalize your Firefox. You can paste this user.js file into some other PC's Firefox profile folder and you will have your settings in that Firefox in a second. So it's an easy way to personalize and backup your Firefox preferences/settings/configurations. Directly making changes to about:config makes that change permanent and saves it into pref.js but changes made via user.js will work as long as the file is present in the profile directory. I lost my enriched user.js file like 2 years ago and didn't make one again until last night. I made some not too harden changes here initially. Might add more later if necessary. You can have a look at this to have an idea. I even put this in alphabetical order, similar to the pref.js file. Any preference you're not familiar with, just do a google search or any other search engine to know what it does. [URL unfurl="true"]https://github.com/SeriousHoax/AnythingWindows/blob/main/user.js[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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