Firefox should provide an option to disable the auto popup pages after any extension installed.
Installing every* Firefox extension
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Re: Installing every* Firefox extension
#62What is amazing is that Firefox can actually run at all with that many extensions installed.
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#63I won the "Middle Finger Emoji Sticker" Award! ( https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension#the-middle-fin... ) I quickly wrote up how: https://www.arnevogel.com/firefox-permissions/
why dont you use your own extension?
I used it on my old pc, but I don't buy still that regularly online so I guess I forgot to reinstall it again. Also it is outdated by now as the domain list hasn't updated in two years.
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#64> I did some research to find why this took so long. 13 years ago, extensions.json used to be extensions.sqlite. Nowadays, extensions.json is serialized and rewritten in full on every write debounced to 20 ms, which works fine for 15 extensions but not 84,194. I'm slightly worried how they arrived at that debounce value. Which extensions need to write to extensions.json continuously, several times a second?
I don’t think extensions ever write that file; Firefox writes it whenever its in-memory set of installed extensions is updated.
When Firefox finds new extensions, it updates the in-memory set for each of them.
In the typical case that series of updates will be small, and the denounce makes it likely the file gets written only once.
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#65GNU Abrowser and Icecat both point to a curated list of FLOSS licensed extensions.
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#67Is the scraping code available? (in order to regenerate the dataset later)
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#68My favorite line: "I got basically all the extensions with this, making everything I did before this look really stupid."
Not at all; all good developers succeed by finding ways to make their past work look unnecessarily complicated.
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#69Really great writing and interesting experiment! I love the small details like the “clueless user”-style crash report in the `about:telemetry` section (“it just crashed out of nowhere”)
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox is absolutely abysmal at not corrupting its JSON stores, too. I've had it crash and lose tabs so many times. Perhaps moving back to SQLite wouldn't be a bad idea. I had to recover somebody's bookmarks for them recently after it decided to destroy the main copy.
> I had to recover somebody's bookmarks for them recently after it decided to destroy the main copy. @Chaosvex curious how you did that.
Thankfully, it makes backups inside the profile folder and has a bookmarks file import option that'll accept them.
It does the same for session tabs (minus the import options) but that never seems to actually work.