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Reminder that Firefox has a pathway to specifying some settings, including ones not exposed to users any other way, with a config file stored on disk.

They call it enterprise policies but anyone can use it by just putting a file in the location indicated on that site.

You can disable entire features, opt out of Telemetry before your first launch of Firefox on a new install, declare you never want to be part of studies, turn off their ML integration and keep it off, force about:config preferences in a way that can't be "accidentally" reverted, etc.

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in reply to Electric Gremlin

large json firefox policy file

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in reply to Electric Gremlin

you can indeed comment json if the schema isn't restricted and you are willing to be silly enough 😁

```
{
"thing": "foo",
"//": "you can comment json",
"// ": "provided that you have no shame",
}
```

in reply to Oliver Jensen

I do it with comment1, comment2, etc

{
"comment1": this is a comment about something that's nearby."
}

in reply to Dave Winer ☕️

I prefer multiline comments using arrays, and using //topic as a naming scheme:

```json
{
“//dependencies”: [
“Make sure if you update Next.JS here that”,
“you update the script that handles installing it in”,
“Docker because of dependency weirdness.”
],
“dependencies”: {
}
}
```

in reply to Dave Winer ☕️

You need to known which keys you already used for that. Maybe rather use a uuid. 😈

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