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purebrowser: cannot enable firefox newtab.enhanced prefs (likely due to removed Activity Stream)
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Hi,
I really miss the Firefox newtab prefs in PureBrowser. I tried to force it back using this line in use.js, but with no success:

user_pref("browser.newtabpage.enhanced", true);

How should I proceed?
Thanks in advance.

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T147 Rework purebrowser packaging 
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T536 purebrowser - references "Firefox" and "Mozilla" leading to confusion 
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T534 purebrowser - advertises Mozilla on start page 
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T714 purebrowser: cannot enable firefox newtab.enhanced prefs (likely due to removed Activity Stream) 
Pini created this task.Mar 1 2019, 6:02 PM
jonas.smedegaard triaged this task as "Low" priority.Mar 2 2019, 1:17 AM
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That is quite likely part of "Activity Stream" which has been removed in PureBrowser, compared to Firefox ESR: See T534

Since the code is removed at the source level, you cannot "enable" it again by simply editing a config option.

What you can do now is only to install Firefox ESR from Debian.

What might be possible in a future rlease of PureBrowser is to provide the currently missing part as a separate package. We will consider doing that, but it is not of high priority.

jonas.smedegaard changed the title from "purebrowser: how to enable back the firefox newtab.enhanced prefs?" to "purebrowser: cannot enable firefox newtab.enhanced prefs (likely due to removed Activity Stream)".Jul 10 2019, 11:24 PM

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