Declare Firefox extensions and settings

KRYREN · March 17, 2024, 9:01am

Did anyone figured out how to declaratively configure the invidual firefox extensions?

I managed to configure ublock-origin to my liking:

Kreyren/nixos-config/blob/bd4765eb802a0371de7291980ce999ccff59d619/nixos/users/kreyren/home/modules/web-browsers/firefox/firefox.nix#L116-L148


      
          				# https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/platform/common/managed_storage.json
          				"uBlock0@raymondhill.net".adminSettings = {
          					userSettings = rec {
          						uiTheme = "dark";
          						uiAccentCustom = true;
          						uiAccentCustom0 = "#8300ff";
          						cloudStorageEnabled = mkForce false; # Security liability?
          						importedLists = [
          							"https://filters.adtidy.org/extension/ublock/filters/3.txt"
          							"https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/raw/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt"
          						];
          						externalLists = lib.concatStringsSep "\n" importedLists;
          					};
          					selectedFilterLists = [
          						"CZE-0"
          						"adguard-generic"
          						"adguard-annoyance"
          						"adguard-social"
          						"adguard-spyware-url"
          						"easylist"

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but trying the same method for libredirect doesn’t work even though the configuration is set in the policies:

github.com

Kreyren/nixos-config/blob/bd4765eb802a0371de7291980ce999ccff59d619/nixos/users/kreyren/home/modules/web-browsers/firefox/firefox.nix#L111-L114


      
          				# https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension/blob/b3457faf1bdcca0b17872e30b379a7ae55bc8fd0/src/config.json
          				"7esoorv3@alefvanoon.anonaddy.me" = {
          					# FIXME(Krey): This doesn't work
          					services.youtube.options.enabled = true;

I had a hypothesis that maybe the extension wipes it’s config on deployment, but trying to deploy the policies on top of configured firefox also doesn’t work… Maybe the extension has to explicitly support this kind of configuration?

Asked upstream on Firefox configuration via `policies.json` on NixOS? · Issue #905 · libredirect/browser_extension · GitHub