Question about Firefox module extension handling

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1

Is it possible to create something like

programs.firefox.policies.ExtensionSettings.normal_installed.myParameter = { url = "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/$VAR/latest.xpi"; }

So you can just do programs.firefox.policies.ExtensionSettings.normal_installed.myParameter.ublock-origin?

2

What do you want to do?

3

Create a command so if I want a plug-in, that’ll be as simple as myParameter.ublock-origin

So ideally I could

myParameter = {
ublock-origin
dark-reader
}
5

No, it’s not possible. Here is my config.

    ExtensionSettings = builtins.mapAttrs
        (_: v: {
          installation_mode = "normal_installed";
          install_url = "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/${v}/latest.xpi";
        })
        {
          "{446900e4-71c2-419f-a6a7-df9c091e268b}" = "bitwarden-password-manager";
          "addon@darkreader.org" = "darkreader";
        };

You need both the id and the name.

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6

Can’t you reduce it to ExtensionSettings.<id>.<name> that would develop into

programs.firefox.policies.ExtensionSettings = builtins.mapAttrs
  (_: extension-name: {
    installation_mode = "normal_installed";
    install_url = "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/${extension-name}/latest.xpi";
  })
  {
    "<extension-id>" = "<extension-name>";
  };

?

7

Here is a script to populate automatically IDs on your "" = "<extension-name>"; structure:

set -xv && \
cd && \
git clone https://github.com/ax-mz/firefoxExtensionID.git
chmod +x firefoxExtensionID/fei.sh && \
for i in `grep '  \"\"' /etc/nixos/configuration.nix | cut -d '"' -f 4`
do sudo sed --in-place "s/\"\"\; = \"$i\"/\"$(bash firefoxExtensionID/fei.sh $i | grep --invert-match ID\ found)\" = \"$i\"\;/g" /etc/nixos/configuration.nix | grep $i
done
set +xv

Take care of only --in-place when you’re sure about the result

8

It’s weird, programs.firefox.policies.ExtensionSettings doesn’t seem to install FireFox and don’t seem to install any extension aswell. Nothing seems downloaded of modified in regard of FireFox/extensions when doing rebuild switch. And even if you get FireFox with nix-shell --packages firefox, FireFox doesn’t open with more extensions than before

But with programs.firefox.enable it works fine

9

Yes. You need to enable it to enable it. :wink: