Comments on: Copying ElasticFox Tags from One Browser to Another

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Copier ses tags Elasticfox » vg5000.org — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:13:26 +0000

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Tagging EC2 Instances Using Security Groups — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:35:16 +0000

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By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:21:00 +0000

Excellent point about different machines, I hadn't thought of that.

Another thing about my quick-and-dirty solution — you'd better make sure Firefox isn't running when you do this!

By: shlomo

shlomo — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:07:01 +0000

@Jason,

Very true. Your one-liner can be used to copy settings between two browsers on the same machine.

I intended my solution to be used to copy settings between browsers on different machines, and also to allow the user some level of control over the "risk" of directly manipulating the prefs.js file. So I provided separate export and import scripts, and I allowed the user to decide when he is comfortable that the scripts don't mess up the prefs.js.

Thanks for the shortcut!

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:19:11 +0000

You don't need a script to move the settings if you're on Linux or Mac:

$ cat $PATH_TO_OLD_PROFILE/prefs.js | grep ec2 >> $PATH_TO_NEW_PROFILE/prefs.js

I've moved mine 4 or 5 times now, no issues.