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Wait, is this a thing? Why do people hate firefox? It's the only mainstream browser with an rcfile?

• doublerabbit 16d ago
  Picture Firefox as a fence inside of a walled garden. One side is painted a dull corporate grey colour; on the other your favorite colour of happiness. The happiness sits beyond the horizon of the graveyard. The dead of digital and open-source. Instead of jumping over using another browser of the 'fox family; you have to dig under by removing all the unnecessary junk. Telemetry, Pocket, VPN et cetera; only then do you get to trek. I see why they named it fox. Each release that grey side of the fence gets a fresh coat of paint and the holes filled. Rumours from the graves are that Cloudflare are going to introduce turnstiles to your own hole if you decide to dig.
• zamadatix 16d ago
  Honest ask, no shaming, how many who read this comment either: A) Don't know what an rc file is B) Haven't manually configured one in the last few years I'm sure there are plenty on HN who are eager to say how much they love rc files, I mean to point out how many, even here, really have no attachment to these kinds of things. Of course it's very possible they don't care enough to read this far or respond either... but it's worth a shot :D
  • nosioptar 16d ago
    An rc file is a configuration file. Vim has .vimrc and bash has .bashrc For example, some distros add an alias for rm to bashrc to make it ask for confirmation (the -i switch iirc). I didnt know Firefox has one. I can't find any documentation on it either...
    • antisol 15d ago
      Technically rc files tend to be a list of commands (usually to set config options) that are executed on startup, not actually configuration files per se. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUNCOM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUNCOM </pedantry>