MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 13/05/2013 15:34, Richard Owlett told the world:
I go back to the Netscape 4.? days.
Over the years I have done many tweaks to prefs.js and
user.js. Some were so I could locally duplicate things I had
set up for two visually impaired users - neither no longer
local. There are also unknown modifications done for
forgotten reasons.
As you might imagine some sites do not display well ;/
I want to preserve everything email or USENET related and
all my browser bookmarks.
Where should I be looking for reading material?
Thank you.
I would start by creating a new, blank profile, so you can get a "blank"
user.js and prefs.js
Then get a file-compare tool and run a comparison with your current
ones. That should prove very instructive, in the "OMG how much crap is
there in my setup" sense. I did that once years ago
Your mail and USENET settings should be around the "mail." section.
Any settings you can't figure out what they do from the name... there
used to be a fairly good commentary on MozillaZine. The fastest way to
find the relevant page is probably Google.
There should be entire sections you can safely delete -- mostly the ones
beginning with "extensions.[some extension you don't use anymore]."
Those are sometimes very, very big.
Bookmarks are in places.sqlite, which is an entirely separate file and
shouldn't be affected.
That's pretty much much where I started from. Then I noticed
the difference in size between my existing and the new
default prefs.js [36k vs 4k]. That was motivation for
looking tools. I also tried to phrase my request broadly
enough that if manual/semi-manual methods were more
appropriate, someone would suggest that.
The MozBackup site which Michael pointed me to included not
only to sites such as MozillaZine and in saying why they
linked to those sites gave useful keywords for Google
searches. Part of my purpose is a refresher course in the
use of prefs.js and user.js.
I've some reading ahead.
Thank you.
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