Re: [orca-list] Change on others internet brausers

["Hwaen Ch'uqi" <hwaenchuqi gmail com>]

Greetings,

Just upgraded to orca-41beta and deleted the .mozilla folder. Things
stayed open slightly longer. I was able to click on a youtube link
generated from a google search. But pressing the "Back" button again
crashed the system.

Hwaen Ch'uqi


On 8/17/21, Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:
> To anyone considering giving the "delete .mozilla" suggestion a try:
>
> If Firefox will stay open long enough for you to do so, using alt+b to
> open the Bookmarks menu and selecting show all bookmarks will bring up
> the bookmarks manager. Once there, alt-i will open a menu with options
> to import/export your bookmarks to an HTML file.
>
> also, if you browse to .mozilla/firefox/[bunch of gibberish], you
> should find among other things, files named key9.db and logins.json.
> These are the files Firefox uses to store saved usernames and
> passwords.
>
> exporting your bookmarks to import into a new profile and saving
> key9.db and logins.json to copy into the new .mozilla/firefox/[bunch
> of gibberish] Firefox makes upon first boot after deleting .mozilla
> won't save you the hassle of going through Firefox's preferences and
> about:config to set everything to your liking or manually reinstalling
> your browser extensions, and you'll have to manually log-in into any
> websites you rely on persistent cookies to stayed log-in, but it does
> save you the hassle of having to rebuild your bookmarks and saved
> log-ins from scratch, which I personally consider the worst aspects of
> building up a Firefox profile from scratch.
>
> As an aside, any clue why Firefox defaults to naming profiles [bunch
> of gibberish]? instead of asking the user to name the profile?
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