Question

Settings for the Mozilla Firefox browser my be changed by entering about:config in the address bar, which will open a configuration file. I would like to be able to edit, delete and add parameters to this file in Python. How can I do this?

Answer 1

The configuration files used in firefox are actually a couple of javascript files that you can find under the profile directory: prefs.js and user.js.

You can use python to append lines to those files (user.js recommended) like:

user_pref(<preference>, <value>)

However, I don’t really think is a good idea to use python for this.