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From: pyotr filipivich on 13 May 2010 04:12 Greetings and Salutations I have recently acquired a second hand laptop, which has been a boone and a bane. The boon is that it lets me get stuff done "on the road" (nothing like having better maps of the county that the one's issued for the job, but I digress). However, and here is the bane - getting Mozilla synced up on both machines. I have finally figured out where the bookmark files got squirreled away, what I want to know is about extensions, all the little doodads which we believe are so cool, and make our life so much more better - and maybe even productive. Where are they? Buried in the gibberish.default directory, or over in dot application data tree? There are days I wish I could download the installers, and do it "manually" - for one thing I can take the laptop to a high speed connection, where as the Big Box is still on dial up. Oh yes, Mozilla Fire fox 3.6 (and upgrades), Big Box is WinXp home ed, and the laptop is Vista Home Premium. cheers pyotr -- pyotr filipivich "Remember, the moral of our show. Put your troubles away until tomorrow. If you're lucky, somebody will break into your house tonight and steal them." Dean Martin
From: Ralph Fox on 13 May 2010 17:31 On Thu, 13 May 2010 01:12:08 -0700, in message <7lcnu5thauf5kcenki9jom8rro22unolfh(a)4ax.com> pyotr filipivich <phamp(a)mindspring.com> wrote: > However, and here is the bane - getting Mozilla synced up on both > machines. I have finally figured out where the bookmark files got > squirreled away, what I want to know is about extensions, all the > little doodads which we believe are so cool, and make our life so much > more better - and maybe even productive. > Where are they? Buried in the gibberish.default directory, or > over in dot application data tree? In my ????????.default directory I have a subdirectory named "extensions", and inside that there are several subdirectories - one for each extension which I installed. Extensions that you install will be in the same place. > There are days I wish I could > download the installers, and do it "manually" - for one thing I can > take the laptop to a high speed connection, where as the Big Box is > still on dial up. You *can* download the *.xpi file and then install it manually on two or more computers. See http://www.accessfirefox.org/Install_Addon_Manually.php > Oh yes, Mozilla Fire fox 3.6 (and upgrades), Big Box is WinXp home > ed, and the laptop is Vista Home Premium. -- Regards Ralph
From: pyotr filipivich on 14 May 2010 20:59 Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> on Fri, 14 May 2010 09:31:29 +1200 typed in alt.fan.mozilla the following: >On Thu, 13 May 2010 01:12:08 -0700, in message <7lcnu5thauf5kcenki9jom8rro22unolfh(a)4ax.com> >pyotr filipivich <phamp(a)mindspring.com> wrote: > >> However, and here is the bane - getting Mozilla synced up on both >> machines. I have finally figured out where the bookmark files got >> squirreled away, what I want to know is about extensions, all the >> little doodads which we believe are so cool, and make our life so much >> more better - and maybe even productive. >> Where are they? Buried in the gibberish.default directory, or >> over in dot application data tree? > >In my ????????.default directory I have a subdirectory named "extensions", >and inside that there are several subdirectories - one for each extension >which I installed. > >Extensions that you install will be in the same place. > > >> There are days I wish I could >> download the installers, and do it "manually" - for one thing I can >> take the laptop to a high speed connection, where as the Big Box is >> still on dial up. > >You *can* download the *.xpi file and then install it manually >on two or more computers. > >See http://www.accessfirefox.org/Install_Addon_Manually.php > > >> Oh yes, Mozilla Fire fox 3.6 (and upgrades), Big Box is WinXp home >> ed, and the laptop is Vista Home Premium. Thank you. I am slowly figuring that out. This laptop is becoming a "monster" - I just wanted something for the "occasional use" - now, it's getting grabbed all the time. If it had a decent keyboard (I know about the add-ons) the big black box would be obsolete. Sign, not like when I was a boy. In those days, we had to make do with steam powered ones. -- pyotr filipivich Nothing says loving like a bun in the oven. EOF
From: Ralph Fox on 14 May 2010 22:31
On Fri, 14 May 2010 17:59:08 -0700, in message <uasru55ca6c5fqf91e1e3p9409dloovv4o(a)4ax.com> pyotr filipivich <phamp(a)mindspring.com> wrote: > This laptop is becoming a "monster" - I just wanted something for > the "occasional use" - now, it's getting grabbed all the time. If it > had a decent keyboard (I know about the add-ons) the big black box > would be obsolete. A 'real' keyboard (USB) is IMO the most important add-on for a laptop. Unfortunately it's not always practical to carry the 'real' USB keyboard with the laptop. The USB keyboard generally stays on the desk while the laptop travels. (I'm typing this now on the laptop's own keyboard from a little caf� where I've stopped for a bite.) -- Regards Ralph |