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Kermode 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿@gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca (2026-09-20 04:22:20)
@prahou
Sorry! I just got in and it was tl;dr when I clicked it. I'll bring it up again in another tab. Thanks. My bad.
@rqm
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Tomáš@prahou@merveilles.town (2026-09-20 04:28:03)
@gemlog @rqm no worries! it used to be very annoying ( http://sciops.net/information/technology/firefox/manual ) but the policies.json file makes it very simple nowadays. You're of course left at the mercy of whoever provided the file for you, and if you want to change something, you can no longer do it in the gui, but have to edit the file.

One extra benefit is that you can do this before starting firefox for the first time, so that it doesn't spy on you immediately before you do all the switching off.

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khm@khm@hj.9fs.net (2026-09-20 04:39:23)
I tried to set Locked: false and Status: user wherever I could so you could still use the GUI to change stuff, but it's true those changes don't survive a restart of the program.  It's a shame that Firefox makes this such a pain in the ass.