Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Sylvia Else Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: wipe and reinstall Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 12:55:54 +1100 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <0fmsgf-h6d.ln1@rasp.therandymon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net raFzaDRX4ebYUiboZVJ1WgT7BPhNMlwgIor5ZbYOSs4sAEaEJN Cancel-Lock: sha1:7EUHXTbp1cS2BtiPCTaGxIzPKbU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0 In-Reply-To: <0fmsgf-h6d.ln1@rasp.therandymon.com> Content-Language: en-GB Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:17281 On 14/01/2019 8:16 am, RS Wood wrote: > Then, Firefox helpfully starts you out with a "fresh" profile, which takes a > while to reconfigure (I think they want you to use their Firefox sync > service, which in truth would've saved me some hassle - I've begun using it > now - but introduces security questions of its own). > I usually just save my original profile directory, copy it over to the new machine, delete the profile that Firefox created, and rename my original profile directory to the name of the profile that Firefox created. There is some mechanism for switching profiles, but I don't usually bother with it. Sylvia.