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captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to Nix / NixOS@programming.devEnglish · 8 months ago

Combining best of system Firefox and home-manager Firefox settings

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Combining best of system Firefox and home-manager Firefox settings

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captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to Nix / NixOS@programming.devEnglish · 8 months ago
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I haven’t seen this documented yet, and wanted to point out that it’s possible to use BOTH the system-level Firefox and the home-manager-level Firefox settings. Why would you want to do this? Well, each has its advantages: System-level Firefox allows you to create system-wide “policies” that include “locked” preferences which cannot be sneakily modified by Firefox (e.g. I’ve noticed *sponsored settings change based on internal API calls, I guess) allows you to create force_installed Firefox ...
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    I find it infuriating to have to keep track of what’s system and what’s home-manager—why isn’t this all merged at this point?

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      Try https://mynixos.com/

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