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Mr. Ran Dum
Mr. Ran Dum

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How to make data available from a Firefox profile folder to an extension

I want to set a new Firefox profile's (firefox -profile "profile_path") window title to include the profile's name using windows.update and titlePreface programmatically. Browser extensions can be configured through options screens, but those involve a lot of clicking and cannot be automated.

Is there any way for me to write information in my Firefox profile folder, that I could then read from an extension? I want to write the profile's name to some file or sqlite database that the extension could read, if it is possible. I cycle through a lot of Firefox profiles and have custom my user.js and userChrome.css, but an extension's setup is more difficult and manual.

Another idea is to programmatically create the extension to already include the profile name, but each one would have to be signed making it too cumbersome.

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Answers (1)

erosman
erosman

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Is there any way for me to write information in my Firefox profile folder, that I could then read from an extension?

That is no longer possible in Firefox 57+

All settings access are only possible via the available API and they are not as extensive as the legacy Firefox.

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