To create a snapshot, open Timeshift and hit the Create button. This guarantees you’ll be able to go back and essentially removes any risk of losing anything. Before the updateīefore the transition, make a backup copy of your profile and perform a system snapshot. From your own point of view this can create a gap between your expectation and the resulting configuration. As we transition the default value from A to B, you simply transition from no custom value to no custom value, and thus also transition from A to B. To you it may look like something you set, but really you’re just using the default value, so this is actually not “set”. Since it’s identical to the default value, it is not custom, and so it’s not stored in your profile. As we transition the default from A to B, you keep your C custom value. If you set it to C, then your profile contains a custom value. Say a particular setting defaults to A in Linux Mint but B in Mozilla. As the default value changes, you can lose some configuration. Because of the way settings work in Firefox, only settings which value is different from the default value are actually stored in your profile. Impact on configuration (technical explanation)

The most noticeable changes are the search engines, the start page, and the preferences settings. We’re transitioning towards the same configuration as the one which is used everywhere else. If you used Firefox in Windows or other Linux distributions you’re already familiar with Mozilla’s default settings. The Mozilla version (downloaded from their site) obviously also already uses it as well, and so do versions from PPA (ESR or not). The flatpak version of Firefox already uses the Mozilla default settings. Only the repository version of Firefox is impacted. In Linux Mint 20.3 the transition already took place with Firefox 95 during the BETA ( ). This post is relevant for users of Linux Mint 19x, 20, 20.1, 20.2 and LMDE 4. This will give everyone a few days to read this post, prepare for the update and get an opportunity to ask questions and seek help before the transition. Today, in preparation for Firefox 96 I want to make one more blog post, this time to talk specifically about technical details and to help people before, through and after the transition.įirefox 96 is out today but we’ll publish the update on Friday January 14th. If you didn’t read this announcement yet, please visit. Yesterday we announced a new partnership with Mozilla and a transition to Mozilla default settings in Firefox 96.

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