Transplanting noscript settings and bookmarks to another machine
After upgrading a laptop to 12-CURRENT, I had problems with firefox 57 choking on
some javascript in an extension. So I renamed my ~/.mozilla directory and
let firefox create a new one. That solved the problem. But with that I lost my
noscript settings and my bookmarks.
Restoring noscript settings
Now, in the noscript version 10.1.5.8 that I’m using, the “Export” button in the options page doesn’t work. Luckily, there is an easy workaround.
Extensions in Firefox 57+ seem to use a file storage.js to store their
settings. This is a JSON file. On a UNIX-like machine, you can find these
using the following command from your home directory in a shell.
> find .mozilla -type f -name 'storage.js'
In my case this turns up two candidates in a browser-extension-data
subdirectory. The right one was quickly found while looking in the file.
I copied this same file to the equivalent location on the laptop, started
firefox and it worked.
Restoring bookmarks
I opened the library window via “Open menu” → “Library” → “Bookmarks” → “Show
All Bookmarks”. In that window I Accessed the “Backup…” menu via “Import and
Backup”. This saved all bookmarks in a file bookmarks-2017-12-16.json.
This was copied to the other machine and imported.
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