I Made a Script for Arkenfox

Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know I’m maintaining a script called userjs-dl. I just released version 2.0 and I’d like to know what are your thoughts.

The script is only 35 lines and it does the same things updater.sh and cleaner.sh do but better. You can run it manually when you feel like updating or from the crontab periodically (eg. each 15 min).

However there’s a caveat, if you want to customize your profile you need a patch file. The script treats every prefs except browser UI and extensions as temporary.

If you need an example there’s a file named user.js.diff on my repo under config. Here you can learn where your data is stored.

This script wouldn’t have been possible without Arkenfox, thank you so much. Try out userjs-dl see if it’s for you and report bugs if there are any (make a backup, just in case).

[rusty-snake]

Two noob questions:

1. Why step `3.` instead of adding the preferences to `user-overrides.js` (which you also use)? I don't understand why you split the process in two parts but I'm sure there's a good reason for that, I'm curious to know.

2. Considering you directly edit `user.js`, can you still run `prefsCleaner.sh` after each update as usual without any issue?

1. Personal decision. I prefer it to just set the inactive (setup-harden) prefs that I use to active instead of copy&paste them.
2. I don’t use prefscleaner but there shouldn’t be any issue.

[rusty-snake]

FWIW, I made another updater too: https://codeberg.org/rusty-snake/firefox-config/src/branch/main/assets/updater2.sh

It just

1. creates a backup of the current user.js
2. downloads the master arkenfox user.js
3. uncomments prefs listed in user.js_prefs_to_uncomment.txt
4. appends user-overrides.js