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		xcdzvyn on Dec 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ugrep – a more powerful, fast, user-friendly, comp... Slight rant/aside but Firefox is bad for this. You can point it to a custom profile path (e.g. .config/mozilla) but ~/.mozilla/profile.ini MUST exist. Only that one file - you can move everything else.

ijustlovemath on Dec 31, 2023 [–]

In my mind, this is fine, as Firefox predates the standard by a long time. But newer tools specifically should know better.

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