{"id":142,"date":"2008-02-16T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/16\/firefox-trick-and-recovery-help\/"},"modified":"2008-02-16T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T18:05:00","slug":"firefox-trick-and-recovery-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/16\/firefox-trick-and-recovery-help\/","title":{"rendered":"firefox trick and recovery help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To provide myself with slightly more safety through separation, I run two firefox profiles simultaneously.  One is the &#8220;general&#8221; browser for day-to-day viewing of random (and unauthenticated) sites, and the other is the &#8220;authenticated&#8221; browser, which contains the cookies for known sites I authenticate against.  The trick for this is having a launcher that runs firefox without attempting to request a new window from the currently running profile:<\/p>\n<pre><code>bash -c \"MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox -ProfileManager\"<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>And in a recent bug-hunting session, I had a firefox profile that just kind of didn&#8217;t load javascript correctly any more (&#8220;change_feedback_state is not defined&#8221; on facebook).  I have no idea what was causing the issue (something not extensions &#8212; it didn&#8217;t go away in &#8220;<code>-safe-mode<\/code>&#8220;), and so I just reconstructed the profile one bit at a time, eventually leaving all of <code>prefs.js<\/code> out.  I used the <a href=\"http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox\">migration checklist<\/a> I found at mozillazine.<\/p>\n<p style='text-align:left'>&copy; 2008, <a href=\"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/\">Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>.<br \/><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CC BY-SA 4.0\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/4.0\/88x31.png\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To provide myself with slightly more safety through separation, I run two firefox profiles simultaneously. One is the &#8220;general&#8221; browser for day-to-day viewing of random (and unauthenticated) sites, and the other is the &#8220;authenticated&#8221; browser, which contains the cookies for known sites I authenticate against. The trick for this is having a launcher that runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}