Disabling Firefox breaks my system

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I removed these lines in my configuration:

# Install firefox.
programs.firefox.enable = true;

And, it broke my system. Unable to start Gnome and no network.

Why is it? This is clearly unexpected. I put the lines back and everything has returned to normal.

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This question will be unanswerable without more details. Have you considered posting your full config and perchance some relevant journal logs?

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By the way, it seems extremely unlikely that this option is involved, since the NixOS FF module doesn’t appear to enable any other dependent options.

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Here is my NixOS config.

For the logs, I don’t know what would be useful to share.

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I had a crash while switching to a new generation.

I added these lines back to my configuration (that I had previously removed):

# Install firefox.
programs.firefox.enable = true;

And then I was back with a functional system.

But then, I removed these two lines again, I switched to the new generation and my system was still functional.

I don’t understand what is going on. @waffle8946 seems right. It was a correlation.