On 2025-08-15 at 21:35, Van Snyder wrote: > On Sat, 2025-08-16 at 01:07 +0100, alain williams wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 04:58:36PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: >> >>> p.s. Does anybody know how to dump all Firefox settings to a >>> plaintext file? Browse to "about:config", enter "*" in the >>> search box, and save the page? >> >> Another thing to try is to return FF to its virgin state. >> >> • Stop FF >> >> • Rename .mozilla as .mozilla.crashes >> >> • Run FF and see if it crashes your system >> >> • When done testing remove the newly created .mozilla and rename >> .mozilla.crashes as .mozilla > > Are all of my bookmarks stored in .mozilla? Can I back them up? Yes. Your entire Firefox user profile is stored under ~/.mozilla/ . Moving it out of the way (with Firefox not running) and then launching Firefox gets you an environment equivalent to what you'd get from launching Firefox as a user who has never run it before. > I assume that if renaming .mozilla to .mozilla.crashes results in > not observing any crashes for a while, and concluding that might be > the cause, putting it back would probably cause crashes. In fact, > running the two-way experiment several times might be more convincing > than not seeing a crash for a day or two. Seems reasonable, indeed, and if you'd be willing to try the experiment that might be worth the bother. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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