$NetBSD: patch-browser_app_profile_firefox.js,v 1.23 2024/04/06 08:53:35 ryoon Exp $ This patch modifies default Firefox settings - see the comments above each one. --- browser/app/profile/firefox.js.orig 2024-03-08 13:19:26.000000000 +0000 +++ browser/app/profile/firefox.js @@ -2461,6 +2461,39 @@ pref("app.normandy.onsync_skew_sec", 600 pref("toolkit.coverage.enabled", false); pref("toolkit.coverage.endpoint.base", "https://coverage.mozilla.org"); +// Select UI locale from LANG/LC_MESSAGE environmental variables +pref("intl.locale.requested", ""); + +// Enable system addons, for example langpacks from www/firefox-l10n +pref("extensions.autoDisableScopes", 11); + +// Firefox includes a complex mechanism for "blacklisting" GPUs that +// appears to fail on a NetBSD system where the only available OpenGL +// implementations are all from Mesa. WebRender was supposed to be +// enabled by default from Firefox 91 onwards and appears to greatly +// improve performance even with acceleration disabled at the kernel +// level. +pref("gfx.webrender.all", true); + +// Disable Web MIDI support +// NetBSD gets immediate SIGSEGV when Web MIDI is enabled. +pref("midi.testing", true); +pref("dom.webmidi.enabled", true); +pref("midi.prompt.testing", true); +pref("media.navigator.permission.disabled", true); + +// Avoid runtime error from WebGL for NetBSD systems +pref("webgl.out-of-process", false); + +// Avoid unfunctional video and audio codecs +pref("media.allow-audio-non-utility", true); + +// On NetBSD, many web applications (e.g. Telegram, Mastodon, Twitter) +// will freeze until the service worker is restarted in about:serviceworkers. +// This is a workaround that makes most of these sites function. +// The root cause of this should be investigated. +pref("dom.serviceWorkers.enabled", false); + // Discovery prefs pref("browser.discovery.enabled", true); pref("browser.discovery.containers.enabled", true);