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<https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-147-XDG-Base-Directory>

[Quote]

A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base
Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox.
The Firefox 147 release should respect this XDG specification
around where files should be positioned within Linux users' home
directory.

The XDG Base Directory specification lays out where application
data files, configuration files, cached assets, and other files
and file formats should be positioned within a user's home
directory and the XDG environment variables for accessing those
locations. To date Firefox has just positioned all files under
~/.mozilla rather than the likes of ~/.config and ~/.local/share.


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On 11/22/25 3:22 AM, Dave Royal wrote:

<https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-147-XDG-Base-Directory>

[Quote]

A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base
Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox.
The Firefox 147 release should respect this XDG specification
around where files should be positioned within Linux users' home
directory.

The XDG Base Directory specification lays out where application
data files, configuration files, cached assets, and other files
and file formats should be positioned within a user's home
directory and the XDG environment variables for accessing those
locations. To date Firefox has just positioned all files under
~/.mozilla rather than the likes of ~/.config and ~/.local/share.


[End quote]

So you want to make the folder tree even longer by adding .config or .local/share to this
current path? .mozilla/firefox/firefox.default/storage/default/https+++www.nytimes.com/cache/morgue/234/

And what does that do to Windows?

And what's wrong with /home/<name>/.mozilla ?
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Alan K. wrote:

Dave Royal wrote:

The XDG Base Directory specification lays out where application
-a data files, configuration files, cached assets, and other files
-a and file formats should be

And what does that do to Windows?

Presumably nothing at all.

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On 11/22/2025 8:20 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

Alan K. wrote:

Dave Royal wrote:

The XDG Base Directory specification lays out where application
-a data files, configuration files, cached assets, and other files
-a and file formats should be

And what does that do to Windows?

Presumably nothing at all.

I thought the OP indicated that the change affects Linux OS, no others.
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Retirednoguilt wrote:

On 11/22/2025 8:20 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

Alan K. wrote:

Dave Royal wrote:

The XDG Base Directory specification lays out where application
-a data files, configuration files, cached assets, and other files
-a and file formats should be

And what does that do to Windows?

Presumably nothing at all.

I thought the OP indicated that the change affects Linux OS, no others.

My understanding is that it affects all Unix offshoots, that presumably includes MacOS and the BSDs.
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On 11/22/2025 11:36 AM, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:

Retirednoguilt wrote:

On 11/22/2025 8:20 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

Alan K. wrote:

Dave Royal wrote:

The XDG Base Directory specification lays out where application
-a data files, configuration files, cached assets, and other files
-a and file formats should be

And what does that do to Windows?

Presumably nothing at all.

I thought the OP indicated that the change affects Linux OS, no others.

My understanding is that it affects all Unix offshoots, that presumably includes MacOS and the BSDs.

I probably shouldn't even be reading this thread. For those of us who
are not fluent in coding etc., what are "BSDs"?
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Retirednoguilt wrote:

For those of us who
are not fluent in coding etc., what are "BSDs"?

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution>
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On 11/22/2025 12:05 PM, Andy Burns wrote:

Retirednoguilt wrote:

For those of us who
are not fluent in coding etc., what are "BSDs"?

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution>

Thank you Andy!
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Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> Wrote in message:

<https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-147-XDG-Base-Directory>

Here's the bug:
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356>
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Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> wrote:

Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> Wrote in message:

<https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-147-XDG-Base-Directory>

Here's the bug:
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356>

I don't want to read all that but I saw this:

"The default for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is $HOME/.config, the default for
$XDG_DATA_HOME is $HOME/.local/share. So all applications should
look for those environment variables and use those default values
if the variables are not set." ... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356#c10

On my Linux systems I don't have $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or $XDG_DATA_HOME
set, don't really care for the idea (like most freedesktop.org
ideas), and have various scripts and symlinks (many half-forgotten)
involving ~/.mozilla. Does this mean with the next major ESR
release it will move things out of ~/.mozilla to those default
locations?

The last comment seems to say that it only applies to new profiles,
so I guess I'm safe?

"No re-installation is needed. If there is $HOME/.mozilla/firefox it
will continue with legacy behavior. The preferred way to move to
the new behavior would be to ensure Sync is setup, get rid of the
legacy directory (make a backup just in case) and starting again
the browser. A new profile should be created in the XDG_CONFIG_HOME
hierarchy and then you can bring back things." ... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356#c228

Oh, I just remembered one of the three computers I use myself with
modern Firefox is 32bit x86, so there won't be a next major ESR
release for Linux on that anyway. Huff.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2025/09/05/firefox-32-bit-linux-support-to-end-in-2026/
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:36:05 +0100, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:

Retirednoguilt wrote:

I thought the OP indicated that the change affects Linux OS, no
others.

My understanding is that it affects all Unix offshoots, that
presumably includes MacOS and the BSDs.

macOS only licenses the rCLUnixrCY trademark, it doesnrCOt behave enough
like rCLUnixrCY for something like this to be relevant.
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 07:38:35 -0500, Alan K. wrote:

And what's wrong with /home/<name>/.mozilla ?
......................^^^^^

Proliferation of dotfile clutter:

ldo@theon:~> ls -d ~/.[!.]* | wc -l
270

How many do you have?
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