[ale] AARG Firefox devs delete several important UI options

[Michael Trausch]

All that's needed to move between the two is to never use binary (native) addons as they're not portable, and then to fix up the paths in the config files so that they make sense on the other platform.

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On Aug 7, 2013, at 10:34 PM, Sparr <sparr0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doing it across Linux and Windows is sketchy, but between Linux boxes you just copy the profile folder, and I suspect the same would work for Windows but I've never tried.
> 
> 
> 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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