On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 13:56, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> try to get by with as few plugins as possible. Perhaps there is
> some way to have a loaded version and a lean version of firefox in
> the same account.
If Firefox didn't insist on a browser restart each time you
enable/disable/install/uninstall something then I'd suggest just using
the enable/disable buttons built into the Firefox add-on manager.
There is a "safe mode" ("firefox -safe-mode") which disables
extension, themes, etc. Unfortunately it comes with a dialogue box
that shows up each time you have to click through. Otherwise it's
pretty snappy.
I assume you're already familiar with multiple profiles. If not then
a solution worth considering would be to create multiple profiles
("firefox -P <PROFILE_NAME>"), but then you have the issue of separate
bookmarks, separate browser history, cookies, etc. This could be
addressed by symlinking some files from one profile to another (i.e.
bookmark*, places.sqlite and cookies.sqlite) but not stuff relating to
extensions. I just tried this with symlinks and it seems to work.
Risks include (1) upon a Firefox upgrade, config files for one profile
getting upgraded which then bleeds into the other and makes the other
no longer loadable. (2) running multiple profiles simultaneously
corrupts something.
A more conservative approach to the above might be to create a wrapper
script that copies/rsyncs relevant data from one profile to another
before starting. Provided you make a backup of the original files
(1-2 MB) before overwriting then you should be able to recover in the
event of a corrupt profile.
Cheers,
Daniel Hedlund
[email protected]
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