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How to unlock/set locked preferences in Firefox-family browsers?
How do you unlock about:config settings which are locked? How do you set them despite being locked?
As an example, Librewolf disables the password manager, which I find silly. However, they also disable your ability to turn it back on.
The about:config key appears to be signon.rememberSignons. It is set to false and greyed out. I tried adding pref("signon.rememberSignons", true); to my librewolf.overrides.cfg but it is still disabled.
- How can I unlock it?
- How can I set it despite being locked?
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| matthewsnyder | (no comment) | Sep 29, 2023 at 20:48 |
It seems possible to do this with unlockPref.
unlockPref("signon.rememberSignons");
This technically only "unlocks" the setting, but in my case when unlocked it changes to true on its own in about:config, probably because that's the default. To explicitly set the desired value you can use:
pref("signon.rememberSignons", true);
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