Re: Restoring Firefox Passwords/Prefs
Kenneth Jacker wrote:
My 'firefox' got hosed again (all I did was to remove the
'downthemall' extension) ... even "firefox -safe-mode"
didn't work ... G-R-R-R-R!
After first backing up my '.mozilla' directory, I reinstalled
'firefox'. But (of course) all my "saved passwords" (and preferences)
are unavailable.
Does anyone know which files I can retrieve from the backed up
'.mozilla' tree (I already got "bookmarks.html") to restore all of my
passwords and preferences?
The passwords are in
~/.mozilla/default/<random-string>/84718125.w
~/.mozilla/default/<random-string>/84718125.s
(I have had problems when trying to share these files between my desktop
and my laptop, but I would expect that copying them works on the same
machine for the same user.)
The preferences are in
~/.mozilla/default/<random-string>/prefs.js
~/.mozilla/default/<random-string>/chrome/userContent.css
On a side note: I have had so much "fun" with uninstalling mozilla
extensions that I now always use brute fore. I identify all RDF files in
~/.mozilla/default/<random-string>/chrome/ which have entries relating
to the offending extension (with a simple "grep -ril extension-name
chrome/") and then I use the following bash-script to remove them:
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#! /bin/sh
# mozrmrdf.sh
# removes all entries related to a given extension from a Mozilla RDF-file
# makes a backup of the original file via the sed --in-place option
if [ -z "$2" ]; then echo "mozrmrdf RDF-filename extension"; exit 1; fi
if [ ! -s "$1" ]; then echo "ERROR: the RDF-file is empty or does not exist"; exit 1; fi
sed --in-place=.bak "/ *<RDF:Description.*$2/,/<\/RDF:Description>/d;/ *<RDF:li.*$2.*\/>/d;/ *<RDF:li>.*$2.*<\/RDF:li>/d" $1
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(The whole script has only three commands: two "if" tests and one
lengthy sed incantation, which should be on one line.)
I have always been successful since I use this approach, which was not
the case when I still relied on the uninstall functions of the various
extensions.
Regards,
Florian
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