@Ipsrichon Linux, which is the only thing I've used non-trivially for a couple decades now, packages get handled (installed/reinstalled/removed) by the package manager (apt, yum, pacman, emerge, and many more depending on your distribution) and the a...
Hi I'm back with a Mozilla-Aware Update Script for Linux users (I posted it here a couple weeks ago, but I guess this platform doesn't like it when you paste code or use certain words). It doesn't do anything that half-intelligent pre- and post-insta...
Here's an idea: what if FF, when it does a background update, installs it in a "staging" location, say on Linux /usr/lib64/.firefox-staging/ or something along those lines (my original thought was to use a filesystem overlay but that's probably not a...
Digging around in the Firefox files on Linux, there is a file at /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja which has a function "sendToRestartRequiredPage" (for 121.0.1 it's at line 63486). I've modified the function to return immediately rather than hijack...
So on Linux at least, I found the file /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja. It's a partially binary file (a "Mozilla archive" according to file-extensions.org). There is another omni.ja in the parent directory that isn't relevant, just a heads-up. For...
