[ale] AARG Firefox devs delete several important UI options

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi Brian,

I was aware of sync, but didn't know it synced profile data.  That's good to know.  However, I was using it to sync bookmarks in the past and they got munged all up.  I had to restore them from other machines.  Ever since, I use only xmarks and pay for their xmarks + lastpass pro service for $ 24 / year or so.  But, it's good to know sync can be used for other purposes.

Hi Sparr, Scott C, JD, Michael T,

Thanks for info relating to copying the firefox profile from one pc to another.  I'll probably try that, at least within each os.  For linux, one person mentioned ~/.firefox and one mentioned ~/.mozilla.  Does anyone know which it is, or should I copy both.  I use Eudora OSE for email, which is based on thunderbird.  I specifically don't want to copy the thunderbird profile data as each machine is slightly different.

Sincerely,

Ron



Brian Mathis <brian.mathis+ale at betteradmin.com> wrote:

>Are you aware of the Firefox Sync service?  It's free and allows you to
>sync your profile to your other installations.  It uses a local
>encryption
>key, so it's very safe.  It's built-in to Firefox under the "Sync" tab
>in
>options.
>
>
>❧ Brian Mathis
>
>
>On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
>atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>
>> If you can point me to a procedure where I can install ff 23 once,
>save
>> the config and plugins to a memory stick, then import that into every
>other
>> machine across windows and linux, I would be deeply appreciative. 
>The next
>> best thing would be to set up linux and copy to all the linux systems
>and
>> set up windows and copy to all the windows systems.  I doubt this
>would
>> work across versions, but it would certainly save me time.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>>
>> Sparr <sparr0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >If you find yourself changing these options more than 3 times, you
>> >should
>> >be automating the process by just importing an entire configuration
>or
>> >profile.
>> >
>> >
>> >On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
>> >atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> **
>> >> Yes, I know that's an option.  Some of the things I mentioned can
>be
>> >fixed
>> >> that way.  Some others cannot.  The main problem is that the UI
>> >controls
>> >> were there and they were easy to use.  Now they're gone and it
>takes
>> >me
>> >> substantially longer to configure the same setup as before.
>> >>
>> >> Sincerely,
>> >>
>> >> Ron
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 8/7/2013 9:31 PM, Sparr wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Firefox has always had thousands of configuration options that
>aren't
>> >in
>> >> the preferences panel. If you want to be a power user, use
>> >about:config
>> >>
>>
>> -snip



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