On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 2:17 pm, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:52:35PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> [...]
>
> > > In Mozilla, it is... I just haven't found an easy way of
> > > keeping bookmarks and settings in sync yet.
> >
> > When you've sorted it, will you write it up, please?
>
> I'll keep that in mind. Can't promise anything, as I'm not using it
> very often, hence, figuring the last details out is not very high
> on my agenda. For starters, I just made a second profile in
> Mozilla, then copied bookmarks.html from the existing one to the
> new one and added a file called "user.js" with the following line:
>
> user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (THIS IS NOT A
> BROKEN MSIE ...)");
>
> as described (I think) somewhere on Mozilla.org. You can then
> switch between those two profiles. Of course, I only use the MSIE
> one for very short periods of time (if at all), hence not having
> all settings/etc. is not that bad.
>
> Also, it should be mentioned, that this will fail on all sites that
> use fancy JavaScript functions to detect the browser.
>
It sounds like something that would be useful to a lot of people, even
if it's not foolproof, though. I'd like to see this somewhere on the
TWiki.
Anne
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