[email protected] 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 :-) :-)
