3.4 Apply & Update & Maintain

🟩 Previous: Overrides [To RFP or Not]

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🟪 APPLY

If you are not using a new profile, we recommend running our cleanup script, the instructions are in the file.

• 🔹 Put all the relevant files into the root folder of your profile ^[1]
  • prefsCleaner
  • updater
  • user.js [NOTE: Do not edit this file directly]
  • user-overrides.js [NOTE: this is the file you created, you edit this file with your changes]
• 🔽 CONTINUE with the UPDATE part below

¹ To find your profile, open about:support and look for Profile Folder under Application Basics.

🟪 UPDATE

• 🔹 Run the updater
  • so the contents of your user-overrides.js is appended to the user.js
• 🔹 ALWAYS run prefsCleaner
  • make sure Firefox is closed
  • this will reset prefs that aren't needed or can cause issues, as well as keep things clean and tidy
  • you can read more about prefsCleaner next

🟥 UPDATE ERROR

• 🔹 If you get an Update failed. Make sure Powershell is allowed internet access error, run as administrator

🟪 MAINTAIN

Each release ¹, or whenever you modify your user-overrides.js

• 🔹 Check for the latest changelog
• 🔹 Run the updater
  • so the contents of your user-overrides.js is appended to the NEW user.js
• 🔹 Run prefsCleaner

🟪 RSS FEEDS

• 🔹 releases ¹ - https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/releases.atom
• 🔹 commits - https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/commits/master.atom

¹ Arkenfox changes to the live master user.js happen once per release: all changes are done in a separate branch and only merged when finished. There is no guarantee when it is done - hopefully within a week of the Firefox release. Nothing of consequence changes these days that will affect you in that time delay.

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🟩 Next: prefsCleaner