Adds support for Firefox forks by introducing methods that create
generic configs and options. Additional configs and options can be
added in separate modules.
Firefox, upon exit, creates the default containers.json file in place of
the one that home-manager created. This leads to errors when switching
to a new profile, as home-manager is careful with overwriting existing
files. The added option toggles that behaviour.
Closes: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/4989
Farm links from the selected firefox package,
programs.firefox.nativeMessagingHosts and a package with a .keep file
for always creating the ~/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts folder as a
regular folder with links in it.
Fixes#4959
This commit makes it possible to specify Firefox' extraPolicies
through:
programs.firefox.package = pkgs.firefox.override {
extraPolicies = {... }
}
This was possible in the past but was broken by:
3feeb77155
firefox: add support for specifying policies (#4626)
When a user references config.programs.firefox.package in her/his
configuration, s·he will get a different path than what is in the
$PATH variable. To make it possible to get the same path, this commit
introduces the finalPackage read-only option.
For some reason, Firefox completely discards the ADD_DATE and
LAST_MODIFIED attributes if they are set to 0. This has been
confirmed by exporting a sample set of bookmarks generated by
Nix using home-manager and comparing it to the same sample of
bookmarks set manually and then exported.
Missing these attributes can cause problems for extensions and
other tools that try to read bookmarks. A known example is the
Tridactyl extension.
These (and the `*MD` functions apart from `literalMD`) are now no-ops
in nixpkgs and serve no purpose other than to add additional noise and
potentially mislead people into thinking unmarked DocBook documentation
will still be accepted.
Note that if backporting changes including documentation to 23.05,
the `mdDoc` calls will need to be re-added.
To reproduce this commit, run:
$ NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=flake:nixpkgs/e7e69199f0372364a6106a1e735f68604f4c5a25 \
nix shell nixpkgs#coreutils \
-c find . -name '*.nix' \
-exec nix run -- github:emilazy/nix-doc-munge/98dadf1f77351c2ba5dcb709a2a171d655f15099 \
--strip {} +
$ ./format
This process was automated by [my fork of `nix-doc-munge`]. All
conversions were automatically checked to produce the same DocBook
result when converted back, modulo minor typographical/formatting
differences on the acceptable-to-desirable spectrum.
To reproduce this commit, run:
$ NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=flake:nixpkgs/e7e69199f0372364a6106a1e735f68604f4c5a25 \
nix shell nixpkgs#coreutils \
-c find . -name '*.nix' \
-exec nix run -- github:emilazy/nix-doc-munge/98dadf1f77351c2ba5dcb709a2a171d655f15099 \
{} +
$ ./format
[my fork of `nix-doc-munge`]: https://github.com/emilazy/nix-doc-munge/tree/home-manager
These files all have options that trip up the `nix-doc-munge`
conversion tool for one reason or another (syntax that clashes with
Markdown, options that were already using Markdown syntax despite not
being marked that way, output that differs slightly after conversion,
syntax too elaborate to convert with some cheap regular expressions,
...). Translate them manually and do a little copyediting to options
in the vicinity while we're at it.
Internally we already managed them per-profile but exposed a global
option to maintain backwards compatibility. The benefit to having
per-profile extensions is quite large though, so it is time to switch.
Users of the global extensions option will get an error message that
indicates how to edit their configuration to work again.
Firefox internally only supports bool, int, and string types for
preferences, but often stores objects, arrays and floats as strings.
This change makes it nicer to specify those type of preferences in
Nix, and it also makes it possible to merge objects & arrays across
multiple modules.
With this change, it's now possible to configure the default search
engine in Firefox with
programs.firefox.profiles.<name>.search.default
and add custom engines with
programs.firefox.profiles.<name>.search.engines.
It's also recommended to enable
programs.firefox.profiles.<name>.search.force = true
since Firefox will replace the symlink for the search configuration on
every launch, but note that you'll loose any existing configuration by
enabling this.
Previously, home-manager would not create a user.js for a certain
profile if profile.bookmarks was not empty but
profile.settings was empty and profile.extraConfig was an
empty string.
It was removed in nixpkgs and causes an error on rebuilds.
error: Your configuration mentions firefox.enableAdobeFlash. All plugin related options have been removed, since Firefox from version 52 onwards no longer supports npapi plugins (see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/npapi-plugins).
