Re: TW Firefox 151.0.4 - pushing World Cup Widget Ads to users??

"Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:04:01 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.suse.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 2026-06-26 08:19, David C Rankin wrote:
> On 6/16/26 8:44 PM, David C Rankin wrote:


> All,
> 
> Just upgraded Tumbleweed to 20260623.
> 
> Mozilla did it again, and they changed the about:config endpoints to 
> ignore prior disabling of world-cups ads. This is getting ridiculous for 
> a distro package:
> 
> https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/19efabc2a5a0
> 
> Top is the screenshot of the new browser.newtabpage.activity- 
> stream.sports options that are pulling in this garbage.
> 
> The bottom is the ad displayed on the new-tab page.
> 
> I know this is flying under Wolfgangs radar and I'm not criticizing the 
> packaging, but somehow Mozilla needs to give the openSUSE packagers a 
> heads-up on how to turn off ads for distro packages. This is just creepy.

How are these settings stored? Could we run a script just after 
updating, setting those things as we like them before running FFx for 
the first time after an update?

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.

   (from openSUSE 16.0 (Laicolasse))

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