let
  profile = "default";
  prf = ".mozilla/firefox/${profile}";
  extstorage = "${prf}/browser-extension-data";
in
  {
    config,
    inputs,
    pkgs,
    lib,
    ...
  }: {
    home-manager.users.tzlil = let
      # gives me access to addonId and crap
      firefox-addons = pkgs.callPackage (pkgs.applyPatches {
        src = inputs.firefox-addons;
        patches = [./addons-passthru.patch];
        name = "firefox-addons-patched";
      }) {};
      addons = config.home-manager.users.tzlil.programs.firefox.profiles.${profile}.extensions;
    in {
      /*
      TODO
      figure out if you like sidebery or TST more
      if sidebery: figure out where options are stored so you can set colors declaratively and also tree groups
      also figure out how to make ctrl+e for SB not conflict with vimium, maybe will rebind to F1
      figure out the search engine crap, i have them hidden but id like them removed completely, Extensions.Uninstall and SearchEngines.Remove did nothing
      incorporate user.js instead of hardcoding some shit myself

      strace -f -t -e trace=file firefox | rg -e "\"/home/tzlil/(.mozilla.*?)\"" -o
      */
      home.file."${prf}/extension-preferences.json".text = builtins.toJSON (
        # i hate myself
        let
          recursiveMerge = attrList: let
            f = attrPath:
              builtins.zipAttrsWith (
                n: values:
                  if builtins.tail values == []
                  then builtins.head values
                  else if builtins.all builtins.isList values
                  then lib.unique (builtins.concatLists values)
                  else if builtins.all builtins.isAttrs values
                  then f (attrPath ++ [n]) values
                  else builtins.last values
              );
          in
            f [] attrList;
        in
          recursiveMerge
          [
            {
              "{3c078156-979c-498b-8990-85f7987dd929}" = {
                origins = ["<all_urls>"];
                permissions = ["proxy" "bookmarks" "tabHide" "clipboardWrite" "history" "downloads" "<all_urls>"];
              };

              "newtaboverride@agenedia.com" = {
                origins = ["https://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/*"];
                permissions = [];
              };
            }
            (lib.fold lib.mergeAttrs {} (map (x: {${x.passthru.addonId} = {permissions = ["internal:privateBrowsingAllowed"]; origins = [];};}) addons))
          ]
      );

      home.file."${prf}/extension-settings.json".text = builtins.toJSON {
        commands = {};
        default_search = {};
        homepageNotification = {};

        # gets rid of the first time notification
        newTabNotification = {
          "newtaboverride@agenedia.com" = {
            initialValue = false;
            precedenceList = [
              {
                enabled = true;
                id = "newtaboverride@agenedia.com";
                installDate = 1000;
                value = true;
              }
            ];
          };
        };
        prefs = {
          "network.networkPredictionEnabled" = {
            initialValue = {};
            precedenceList = [
              {
                enabled = true;
                id = "uBlock0@raymondhill.net";
                installDate = 1000;
                value = false;
              }
            ];
          };
          "privacy.containers" = {
            initialValue = {};
            precedenceList = [
              {
                enabled = true;
                id = "CanvasBlocker@kkapsner.de";
                installDate = 1000;
                value = "CanvasBlocker@kkapsner.de";
              }
            ];
          };
          "websites.hyperlinkAuditingEnabled" = {
            initialValue = {};
            precedenceList = [
              {
                enabled = true;
                id = "uBlock0@raymondhill.net";
                installDate = 1000;
                value = false;
              }
            ];
          };
        };
        tabHideNotification = {};
        url_overrides = {
          newTabURL = {
            initialValue = "about:newtab";
            precedenceList = [
              {
                enabled = true;
                id = "newtaboverride@agenedia.com";
                installDate = 1000;
                value = "moz-extension://5ba70e66-a52e-41b3-9364-b4f0a14f3854/html/newtab.html";
              }
            ];
          };
        };
        version = 3;
      };

      home.file."${extstorage}/redirector@einaregilsson.com/storage.js".text = builtins.toJSON {
        redirects =
          map ({
            includePattern,
            redirectUrl,
            description,
          }: {
            appliesTo = ["main_frame"];
            inherit description;
            disabled = false;
            error = null;
            exampleResult = "";
            exampleUrl = "";
            excludePattern = "";
            grouped = false;
            inherit includePattern;
            patternDesc = "";
            patternType = "W";
            processMatches = "noProcessing";
            inherit redirectUrl;
          }) [
            {
              includePattern = "https://*youtube.com/watch?*v=*";
              redirectUrl = "https://yewtu.be/watch?$2v=$3}";
              description = "invidious";
            }
            {
              includePattern = "https://*youtube.com/results?*search_query=*";
              redirectUrl = "https://yewtu.be/search?$2q=$3";
              description = "invidious search";
            }
          ];
        enableNotifications = false;
      };
      home.file."${extstorage}/newtaboverride@agenedia.com/storage.js".text = builtins.toJSON {
        url = "https://lobste.rs";
      };

      programs.firefox = {
        enable = true;
        package = pkgs.firefox-wayland.override {
          extraPolicies = {
                    CaptivePortal = false;
        DisableFirefoxStudies = true;
        DisablePocket = true;
        DisableTelemetry = true;
        DisableFirefoxAccounts = true;
        FirefoxHome = {
          Pocket = false;
          Snippets = false;
        };
        UserMessaging = {
          ExtensionRecommendations = false;
          SkipOnboarding = true;
        };
            OverrideFirstRunPage = "";
            Extensions.Install = map (x: x.src.outPath) config.home-manager.users.tzlil.programs.firefox.profiles."default".extensions;
          };
        };
        profiles.default = {
          userChrome = builtins.readFile ./userChrome.css;
          search = {
            default = "DuckDuckGo";
            force = true;
            engines = {
              "Nix Packages" = {
                urls = [
                  {
                    template = "https://search.nixos.org/packages";
                    params = [
                      {
                        name = "type";
                        value = "packages";
                      }
                      {
                        name = "query";
                        value = "{searchTerms}";
                      }
                    ];
                  }
                ];

                icon = "${pkgs.nixos-icons}/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/nix-snowflake.svg";
                definedAliases = ["!np"];
              };
              "Home Manager" = {
                urls = [
                  {
                    template = "https://mipmip.github.io/home-manager-option-search/";
                    params = [
                      {
                        name = "query";
                        value = "{searchTerms}";
                      }
                    ];
                  }
                ];

                icon = "${pkgs.nixos-icons}/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/nix-snowflake.svg";
                definedAliases = ["!hm"];
              };
              "Invidious" = {
                urls = [
                  {
                    template = "https://yewtu.be/search";
                    params = [
                      {
                        name = "q";
                        value = "{searchTerms}";
                      }
                    ];
                  }
                ];

                iconUpdateURL = "https://invidious.io/favicon.ico";
                definedAliases = ["!yt"];
              };
            };
          };

          extraConfig = builtins.readFile (
            builtins.fetchurl {
              url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arkenfox/user.js/master/user.js";
              sha256 = "sha256:1mb1l9dgb8mfl70lhwykgfphqnxxi1xw0h3hlgj8jyj6n1mn5v8f";
            }
          );
          settings = {
            # for custom browser style
            "toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets" = true;

            "browser.newtabpage.pinned" = [
              {url = "https://tzlil.net";}
            ];
            "browser.startup.homepage" = "https://lobste.rs";

            "extensions.activeThemeID" = "{e410fec2-1cbd-4098-9944-e21e708418af}";
            "svg.context-properties.content.enabled" = true;

            "browser.toolbars.bookmarks.visibility" = "always";
            "browser.uidensity" = 1;
            "browser.aboutConfig.showWarning" = false;
            "browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser" = false;

            # always private mode
            # its what i had with mullvad, but mayb i will not do that anymore cuz its kinda annoying having to log back into everything always
            # but then i also need to keep more state
            # "browser.privatebrowsing.autostart" = true;

            # remove crap
            "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.topSiteSearchShortcuts" = false;
            "browser.search.hiddenOneOffs" = "Google,Bing,Amazon.com,eBay,Twitter,Wikipedia (en)";

            "browser.download.dir" = config.home-manager.users.tzlil.xdg.userDirs.download;

            # for webconsole
            # "devtools.chrome.enabled" = true;
            # "general.config.filename" = "UserChrome.js";
            # "general.config.obscure_value" = 0;
            # "general.config.sandbox_enabled" = false;

            # might be neccesary for declaratively setting newtaboverride as the default newtab
            # "extensions.webextensions.uuids" = {
            # "newtaboverride@agenedia.com" = "5ba70e66-a52e-41b3-9364-b4f0a14f3854";
            # };
          };
          extensions = with firefox-addons; [
            # privacy crap
            ublock-origin
            clearurls
            privacy-possum
            skip-redirect
            # localcdn
            canvasblocker

            # dont need this, impermanence
            # history-cleaner

            # usability crap
            darkreader
            vimium
            # upgrade for new theme stuff
            (firefox-addons.buildFirefoxXpiAddon {
              pname = "sidebery";
              version = "v5.0.0rc4";
              addonId = "{3c078156-979c-498b-8990-85f7987dd929}";
              url = "https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/releases/download/v5.0.0rc4/sidebery-5.0.0rc4.xpi";
              sha256 = "sha256-YsH9yYfGefClRS93dMV/eLMFuoPFKPrx0NL2hIv4dEk=";
              meta = with lib; {
                homepage = "https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery";
                description = "Tabs tree and bookmarks in sidebar with advanced containers configuration.";
                license = licenses.mit;
                platforms = platforms.all;
              };
            })
            redirector
            demodal
            kristofferhagen-nord-theme
            new-tab-override

            # misc
            snowflake
          ];
        };
      };
    };
  }