Firefox 147 Will Support The XDG Base Directory Specification Merged this morning was the support for this specification and associated commits In turn this long-open bug is now closed and Firefox 147 should be the version to finally support the XDG Base Directory specification for jiving more nicely with other Linux apps
Firefox is fixing a 21-year old problem on Linux - How-To Geek As part of the upcoming release of Firefox 147, Mozilla has resolved a bug report about missing support for Freedesktop's XDG Base Directory standard The report had been open for a whopping 21 years, and the fix will make Firefox installation files cleaner and more organized
259356 - (xdg-basedir) Support for the Freedesktop. org XDG . . . This will be fun with writing testcases :-) Adding MOZ_XDG_BASE_DIR_SUPPORT=false that disables the new support in Firefox only needs to do something at profile creation time (and add 2-way fallback everywhere else, still no fun but strictly easier and less error prone)
Firefox 147 Will Support The XDG Base Directory Specification 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
Firefox is fixing a 21-year old problem on Linux - Nsane Forums As part of the upcoming release of Firefox 147, Mozilla has resolved a bug report about missing support for Freedesktop's XDG Base Directory standard The report had been open for a whopping 21 years, and the fix will make Firefox installation files cleaner and more organized Bug 259356, created