Windowblinds writes to the firefox user profile folder every time it is run. It overwrites the userChrome.css with the file ff.css from the windowblinds folder, I want to skin Firefox but i don't want some program writing to my user files without my permission.
This is even MORE important in Firefox 57 which makes it so the ONLY way to change things for a user is now userChrome.css in the profile/chrome folder. The extensions can no longer write to another extension.
My question is wtf is windowblinds doing writing to user files, (took a whole afternoon to find the program doing it), more importantly, how can i toggle off this abnormal software behavior.
Did you exclude FireFox from skinning in the "Per application" settings?
I want firefox skinned of course and anyway it does not prevent the overwrite. It seems this behavior is hard coded into Windowblinds.
Right,you want FireFox being skinned,but do not want Windowblinds overwrite somethings that may affect skinning on it,it makes lots of senses.
Wtf is that? Windowblinds doesn't write to other programs to skin it and as i stated before you HAVE TO USE THAT FILE TO MAKE CHANGES TO FF 57+ so why would i want a program to over write it every time it runs. If that is your level of help here sorry i asked. Well more like sorry you answered. I guess you don't understand that windowblinds is overwriting user files, that is files people use and should not be overwritten.
Now for people that have actual need of facts the problem can be overcome by deleting or renaming ff.css in the windowblinds folder. it still TRIES to overwrite it but with nothing to put there it leave the file intact. AND Firefox is still skinned, imagine that.
I assumed this was a form of a support forum, wont be making that stupid mistake again.
This is not Stardock's official Support process [or even the specific 'support' section of these Forums]. Instead it is a User discussion Forum where some assistance may be available from fellow users who may or may not experience the same issues.
Firefox has long been a problematic program to skin...or to support skinning as, with every version release they manage to reinvent themselves to the point things won't work as they did.
Personally? I gave up even thinking of using Firefox about a decade and a half ago for the simple reason they [Firefox] don't seem to be able to find their bum with both hands.
This will simply be another issue of their inanity, and I expect that user file you mention WAS used happily by Windowblinds for user settings re skinning but is only now broken.
I'll see that Neil sees this thread and can deal with FF yet again.
I recently stopped using it because it kept refusing to connect sites I regularly visit.... including Wincustomize. It kept returning the error that the proxy server in Windows was refusing connections. I subsequently switched to Opera and haven't looked back.
As for the bum and both hands.... even with a map.
I had two emails into SD themselves but i never got a response. So I was just trying. At least I have it so it does not overwrite any longer. I have a feeling not many in that circle even realize WB writes over those files. I understand why they did it before, but useChrome.css is now the ONLY way to make deeper changes to FF now that web extensions is active. I use most browsers, At .least the top 4 because the tools and toys i write for my customers have to work on those. I am not happy with how Mozilla does almost everything these days but I have to work it out one way or another. Thanks for popping in with a friendly voice, made me feel better, I am an old man and have been doing this since the C-64 days and get a little crooked when people offer the opposite of help or at least understanding. But I am not telling you anything you don't know . Thank your for your help moving it up the line and for chiming in and I look forward to talking again soon.
Thanks, @danamw ! I was wondering why my FireFox userchrome.css file was being overwritten, and then I noticed that there was a WBbackupuserchrome.css file in my Firefox\Profiles\___\chrome folder, and I guessed that WindowBlinds was potentially the culprit. I fixed this (prior to reading this thread) by excluding FireFox.exe from being skinned by WindowBlinds, but it's "good" to know the details of what WB was doing with the FF.css file.
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You are very welcome =GO=. What you did would not work for me then because even excluding FF it was still writing to it.. At first I just changed Userchrome to me and admins read only permission. take care.
Dana
WindowBlinds replaces those files because Firefox had (and may well still have) a serious flaw in how it painted inactive tab text resulting in it being invisible.
The only fix was to remap the colours via the file. The same applies to thunderbird
Well it does not seem like an answer to overwrite someones files. Seems more like a band-aid than a proper method. Appending to the file would be less of a hassle to me.
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