commit b4f1b4dbbfdf3d38e51dc4f5c72a79aa04fc2895
parent f90c17f74894c0e1b2ff9437b79c2b9eae11f073
Author: claustromaniac <20734810+claustromaniac@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 12:47:50 +0000
prefsCleaner.sh (for Linux/Mac) (#405)
Port of the prefsCleaner.bat for anything(?) with a bash shell.
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+## prefs.js cleaner for Linux/Mac
+## author: @claustromaniac
+## version: 1.0
+
+## special thanks to @overdodactyl and @earthlng for a few snippets that I stol..*cough* borrowed from the updater.sh
+
+currdir=$(pwd)
+
+## get the full path of this script (readlink for Linux, greadlink for Mac with coreutils installed)
+sfp=$(readlink -f "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" 2>/dev/null || greadlink -f "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" 2>/dev/null)
+
+## fallback for Macs without coreutils
+if [ -z "$sfp" ]; then sfp=${BASH_SOURCE[0]}; fi
+
+## change directory to the Firefox profile directory
+cd "$(dirname "${sfp}")"
+
+fQuit() {
+ ## change directory back to the original working directory
+ cd "${currdir}"
+ echo -e "\n$2"
+ exit $1
+}
+
+fFF_check() {
+ # there are many ways to see if firefox is running or not, some more reliable than others
+ # this isn't elegant and might not be future-proof but should at least be compatible with any environment
+ while [ -e webappsstore.sqlite-shm ]; do
+ echo -e "\nThis Firefox profile seems to be in use. Close Firefox and try again.\n"
+ read -p "Press any key to continue."
+ done
+}
+
+fClean() {
+ # the magic happens here
+ prefs="@@"
+ prefexp="user_pref[ ]*\([ ]*[\"']([^\"']*)[\"'][ ]*,"
+ while read -r line; do
+ if [[ "$line" =~ $prefexp && $prefs != *"@@${BASH_REMATCH[1]}@@"* ]]; then
+ prefs="${prefs}${BASH_REMATCH[1]}@@"
+ fi
+ done <<< "`grep -E \"$prefexp\" user.js`"
+
+ while IFS='' read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
+ if [[ "$line" =~ ^$prefexp ]]; then
+ if [[ $prefs != *"@@${BASH_REMATCH[1]}@@"* ]]; then
+ echo "$line"
+ fi
+ else
+ echo "$line"
+ fi
+ done < "$1" > prefs.js
+}
+
+echo -e "\n\n"
+echo " ╔══════════════════════════╗"
+echo " ║ prefs.js cleaner ║"
+echo " ║ by claustromaniac ║"
+echo " ║ v1.0 ║"
+echo " ╚══════════════════════════╝"
+echo -e "\nThis script should be run from your Firefox profile directory.\n"
+echo "It will remove any entries from prefs.js that also exist in user.js."
+echo "This will allow inactive preferences to be reset to their default values."
+echo -e "\nThis Firefox profile shouldn't be in use during the process.\n"
+select option in Start Help Exit; do
+ case $option in
+ Start)
+ if [ ! -e user.js ]; then
+ fQuit 1 "user.js not found in the current directory."
+ elif [ ! -e prefs.js ]; then
+ fQuit 1 "prefs.js not found in the current directory."
+ fi
+
+ fFF_check
+ bakfile="prefs.js.backup.$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H%M")"
+ mv prefs.js "${bakfile}" || fQuit 1 "Operation aborted.\nReason: Could not create backup file $bakfile"
+ echo -e "\nprefs.js backed up: $bakfile"
+ echo "Cleaning prefs.js..."
+ fClean "$bakfile"
+ fQuit 0 "All done!"
+ ;;
+ Help)
+ echo -e "\nThis script creates a backup of your prefs.js file before doing anything."
+ echo -e "It should be safe, but you can follow these steps if something goes wrong:\n"
+ echo "1. Make sure Firefox is closed."
+ echo "2. Delete prefs.js in your profile folder."
+ echo "3. Delete Invalidprefs.js if you have one in the same folder."
+ echo "4. Rename or copy your latest backup to prefs.js."
+ echo "5. Run Firefox and see if you notice anything wrong with it."
+ echo "6. If you do notice something wrong, especially with your extensions, and/or with the UI, go to about:support, and restart Firefox with add-ons disabled. Then, restart it again normally, and see if the problems were solved."
+ echo -e "If you are able to identify the cause of your issues, please bring it up on ghacks-user.js GitHub repository.\n"
+ ;;
+ Exit)
+ fQuit 0
+ ;;
+ esac
+done
