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But it's also Firefox, just go into about:config and turn it off if you don't like it and presto?

It's great to have an out. But are those synchronized? Because I find the increasing number of tweaks difficult to remember. Tyranny of the default is real.

Put any preferred tweaks in a user.js file in the profile directory, // commented with meanings and reasons, and save wetware memory.

When I was young and enthusiastic I used to maintain user and chrome CSS overrides like that. Synced via DropBox no less!

Now I am older and tired of doing the symlinking every time I setup a new install of Ff.

How often do you set up new installs?

I've been moving around the same firefox install since Opera died.

Just copy your ~/.mozilla everywhere. I too have been using the same profile for about a decade, across many machines.

Oh they're trying to remove that ability as well:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543752

It's a slow and steady advance, not something that happens overnight.

Yeah until the pref just stops working one day.

You just described all software ever released. Things always stop working one day and then we're forced to learn/get used to a new thing.

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