Happened upon this YT video (Ad-Free link courtesy of the uTube addon: https://utube.realityripple.com/#x5TIqHTkTG4 ) on a Discord server I'm in. It seems that FireFox has, after 21 years, adopted the GNU/Linux (?) specification as to where it should store the user-centric files - instead of a single "hidden" .mozilla one.
As the video does comment towards the end with something along the lines of "will forks and related projects" follow this lead - will PaleMoon?
Using FreeDesktop XDG specification directories for PaleMoon
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Re: Using FreeDesktop XDG specification directories for PaleMoon
Relevant bugzilla link for convenience: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356
Anyway if XDG Base Directory will be adopted I think we should have a common base directory (which could be named uxp-goanna) for all UXP applications so they can be easily found and separated from the rest of the applications sharing $HOME/.local/share instead of their base directory simply being the developer's name. So Pale Moon would be $HOME/.local/share/uxp-goanna/moonchild productions/pale moon and Epyrus would be something like $HOME/.local/share/uxp-goanna/athenian200/epyrus.
Patches welcome.
Anyway if XDG Base Directory will be adopted I think we should have a common base directory (which could be named uxp-goanna) for all UXP applications so they can be easily found and separated from the rest of the applications sharing $HOME/.local/share instead of their base directory simply being the developer's name. So Pale Moon would be $HOME/.local/share/uxp-goanna/moonchild productions/pale moon and Epyrus would be something like $HOME/.local/share/uxp-goanna/athenian200/epyrus.
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