Firefox

Glide extends and heavily builds on top of Firefox but for the most part Glide is purely additional; however there are some key changes that have been made to the base Firefox build:

1. All AI features are disabled by default
2. Betterfox is included by default
3. userChrome.css & userContent.css customisation is enabled by default
4. Newtab shortcuts are disabled by default (browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.topsites)
5. <space> is mapped to the <leader> key, not scroll down - glide.g.mapleader
6. Updates are not automatically installed, when new versions are available - you will be prompted to install them
7. Taskbar badges are disabled by default, you can re-enable them with the glide.firefox.taskbar.badge.enabled pref.
8. On Linux, the auto updater is disabled.

Additionally, the extension native messaging runtime paths are different:

• macOS system: /Library/Application Support/Glide Browser
• macOS user: ~/Library/Application Support/Glide Browser
• Linux system: /usr/lib64/glide-browser (or /usr/lib/glide-browser)
• Linux user: ~/.glide-browser

Glide generally targets the Firefox beta channel. This is purely for decreased maintenance burden as it is easier to deal with frequent smaller updates, than less frequent but larger updates.

In the future, Glide may be based off of Firefox release instead.