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Why does firefox keeps using ~/.mozilla directory? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Even after all these years firefox keeps using mozilla hidden directory instead of XDG base directories. For how long will this continue?

Watch https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356 for updates to this request.

~/.mozilla/firefox/ is a mish-mash of data, config, and cache. It's not simple to unravel that. Beyond that, it would be a breaking change, and that requires more caution.

credit: u/yo_99 on Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is one of the reasons I use Flatpak whenever I can. I've revoked all Flatpak apps the permission to access the root of my home directory via a global override, so anything they wanted to do in there (e. g. create folders, place malicious code in my ~/.bashrc, etc.), actually happens in ~/.var/app/<appid>/.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Don't you need to manually configure remapping those folders, or is it automatically done when revoking the prrmission?