[ale] AARG Firefox devs delete several important UI options

[Jim Kinney]

I've never looked at that db before but since you know what kind it is,
flat file, delimited, fixed length, SQL lite, berklydb, etc, then it's just
delete from db where val is foo in the appropriate syntax.
On Aug 8, 2013 6:32 PM, "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> WARNING, problems with xmarks after copying ff profile.
>
> I tried the copying the firefox profile trick.  It generally worked except
> it caused problems for xmarks, which synchronizes bookmarks, passwords, and
> open tabs between computers, if you want it to.  The problem is that the
> xmarks extension has both a pc name, which you provide, and a machine id,
> which it creates when you install.  On the second computer that you copied
> the profile to, this name and id will be the same as the first computer,
> and this can screw up xmarks sync on both machines.  I almost completely
> lost 70 open tab urls that I had saved when I deleted the list for one
> machine and it deleted it for both machines.  Fortunately, I still have the
> tab list stored for one more machine which hasn't received the upgrade yet.
>
> I am looking into how to wipe out the xmarks profile on the machine with
> the copied profile.  I haven't found out how.  Uninstalling the extension
> does not remove the xmarks entries from the about:config database, and the
> ui does not provide any way to delete lines in the database.
>
> Thus far, the firefox on the machine I copied the profile to, in and of
> iteself, is working ok.  However, my xmarks is screwed up and cannot be
> used.  I have to figure out a solution to this before I can continue using
> firefox to any great extent on the machine.
>
> If anyone knows how to COMPLETELY remove all "xmarks" entries from the
> about:config database, please let me know.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
> On 8/8/2013 2:10 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
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