MozillaZine seems to say you can't do that, unless you manually edit paths in prefs.js, which I find rather risky.īy the way, is the UI customization stored in user.js and prefs.js as well ? Let me add an important point : I want to be able to copy Preferences and UI customization across different Firefox profiles on different Windows user accounts, since I have two user accounts, one admin and one non-admin.
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I've found a single extension purporting to do that, Save / Load Prefs, but I don't understand how to make it work, and it has one review only. You may need to manually edit the paths in prefs.js to reflect the new profile location." Not recommended to transfer if you had problems in your old profile. "user.js (an optional file) and prefs.js - User preference settings. The Refresh function specifically wipes Preferences and Extensions, as we're warned that they are the first suspects when Firefox misbeheaves. However, there does not seem to be any obvious way to backup and restore them.
Setting Preferences / Options and customizing the UI takes a long time.