[ale] AARG Firefox devs delete several important UI options

[brian.mathis+ale at betteradmin.com (Brian Mathis)]

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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