firefox disable clickselectsall in address bar

control

Package: firefox-skyskimmer-patches
Version: 1.0
Section: custom
Priority: optional
Architecture: all
Essential: no
Maintainer: skyskimmer.net
Depends: zip, unzip, sed, coreutils
Description: Patch firefox post-install
  - disable clickselectsall behaviour in address bar

guide

put files in /tmp/ffpatches/DEBIAN (this means "control" is /tmp/ffpatches/DEBIAN/control etc)
dpkg-deb --build /tmp/ffpatches
dpkg -i the resulting .deb

postinst

#!/bin/sh

case $1 in
    configure|triggered) ;;
    *)
        exit 0
        ;;
esac

# based on https://superuser.com/questions/540851/go-back-to-not-selecting-the-whole-url-when-i-click-the-address-bar/1559926
# but I dont use the searchbar

set -e

tmp=$(mktemp -d)

unzip -d "$tmp" -q /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja

cd "$tmp"

sed -i 's/this\._preventClickSelectsAll = this\.focused;/this._preventClickSelectsAll = true;/' modules/UrlbarInput.jsm

zip -0DXqr omni.ja ./*

mv omni.ja /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja

# put date and md5sum somewhere to make it easy to check if the current version is a patched version
date > /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja.patched
md5sum /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja >> /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja.patched

triggers

interest /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja