Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring a theme/addon from one profile to another without downloading

[Dale]

Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have one profile with addons and themes, which are no longer
> available. They still run fine with my current firefox.
>
> Now I need to setup a new profile (video/audio problems - see previous
> thread) and want to transfer these no longer available addons/themes
> from the old to the new profile.
>
> Is there any way to do this without downloading them from
> addons.mozilla.org again?
>
>
> Thank you very much for any help in advance!
> Best regards,
> Meino
>
>
>
>


This may help but may not. 

I know recently when I had problems with Lastpass causing Firefox to
crash, I only had to delete the directory it has in the extensions
directory.  Once that was done, Firefox worked but without that
plugin/extension.  So, I know removing it will make it go away but I'm
not sure if the reverse can be said without testing.  Basically, copying
the directory/file over from another profile may or may not make it work. 

I just did a word search for "lastpass" in a profile and the search
found it mentioned in several other files.  Here is a partial list:

pref.js
addons.json
extensions.json
extension.ini

There are a few others but you get the idea.  I'm not sure if Firefox
would pick up and add what is needed to those files when you start it
and it sees the new plugins/extension files are there.  It may but it
also may have to be done during the install of the plugin/extension. 

Also, when I have recovered from a backup copy or copied from a old
system to a new system, file permissions is something that must match
up.  Firefox, at least in my past experience, has shown itself to be
picky on that.  Sometimes, it doesn't even give a error, it just works
oddly.  So, double check those permissions. 

Good question.  Looking forward to seeing if anyone else has done this
and how it worked, or didn't work. 

Dale

:-)  :-)