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How to get Nobara to STOP overriding my Firefox homepage?? (lemm.ee)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is becoming a fucking pain in the ass, and it's going to be the final and only reason I end up moving away from it. WTF, makes me feel like I'm back to using Windows. How the hell can I avoid Nobara tampering the firefox welcome page every week?

Thanks!

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[–] pixeltree 48 points 10 months ago

I asked a friend who uses nobara and he says

Oh I know what they're running into

They're using the rpm which is copied from fedora upstream

Fedora ships with firefox by default and sets the home page to the fedoraproject site

Not sure what they're doing to trigger it to revert though

Nobara moved to chromium as the stock browser in order to have compatibility with steamdeck plugins, anyways

but all you do is just install firefox manually and go home

I'm not sure if that user is using the firefox rpm or flatpak

I use the flatpak with no issues, so

¯\(ツ)/¯

tl;dr as a solution for them, try the flatpak of firefox and see if it does the same thing

flatpaks have better security anyways, because they're sandboxxed away from being able to access the entire system

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Top comment and comment thread from this reddit thread : https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/mtyqj9/how_to_prevent_fedora_from_changing_firefox_start/

Probably the same thing.

An alternative is to install the flatpak version of firefox, that nobara wouldn't mess with.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Thanks so much! I never found that thread. Only another guy complaining about the same thing...I just ran the command, hopefully it won't do that crap anymore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Install the Flatpack version, easy fix.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I think I saw this question days before with a different title and less answers? Is that you? If so, glad you got help here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Shit like this made me dump Mint more than a decade ago. I've been very happy with Debian (Sid).

[–] db2 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mint doesn't do this. It never did do this. Stop lying.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It did do it on old versions now it doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

By memory it had a Firefox extension it installed and relied on to make a few things slightly smoother like h264 video, but that was a good decade ago and Mint today doesn't like you said

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not an extension something modification in the .Mozilla folder.