Has anyone been able to edit the search engine prefs file (search.json.mozlz4) in the profile folder and keep the changes?
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I found that all search engines in Firefox, default and user-added, are stored in the search.json.mozlz4
file in the root of your profile folder. I used this software to decompress it: https://github.com/jusw85/mozlz4 (I compiled it on macOS with cargo build
). I tried looking up what each JSON property means but didn't find anything, and found one comment saying that it doesn't work since Firefox always checks it for tampering.
I did this with an extension, you nan probably find it easily, if not I'll take a look when I'm in the pc
Which extension was it? Maybe take a look on ur PC.
This is it https://github.com/serj-kzv/mozlz4-edit