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Has anyone been able to edit the search engine prefs file (search.json.mozlz4) in the profile folder and keep the changes? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I found that all search engines in Firefox, default and user-added, are stored in the search.json.mozlz4 file in the root of your profile folder. I used this software to decompress it: https://github.com/jusw85/mozlz4 (I compiled it on macOS with cargo build). I tried looking up what each JSON property means but didn't find anything, and found one comment saying that it doesn't work since Firefox always checks it for tampering.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I did this with an extension, you nan probably find it easily, if not I'll take a look when I'm in the pc

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

Which extension was it? Maybe take a look on ur PC.