<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Floyd S <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luckygreentiger@gmail.com" target="_blank">luckygreentiger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I've been using Firefox since it was still called Firebird (about the time it just changed names from Phoenix)-- and I'm still fond of the browser. However, backing up and restoring profiles has never been "easy". I would like to make a few requests:<br><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">1) Instead of profile paths like <span style="font-family:Verdana"><i>C:\Users\profilename\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\5m6zzekg.<b>default</b>-1384164605892\</i> why cant the paths simply be c:\users\profilename\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\profilename.default\ ? Profile names in most OSes have to be unique anyway, this is an extra complication for scripting purposes that generally makes network administration for Firefox a complete PITA.<br></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Making the profile hard to guess is a security feature. There is a class of attacks that rely on being able to have the browser cache a file and then executing the cached file in a elevated context. The basic attack looks like this, create a web page with an image tag. However instead of an image we will send a file called evil.bat. Use some sort of browser security flaw to execute evil.bat. This becomes harder if you cannot know exactly where on the file system evil.bat is stored. This is also why browser caches no longer use the file name as provided by the server.<br><br></div><div>If you need to customize Firefox for an internal distribution look into the CCK 2 wizard and the info at <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise</a><br></div><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana">2) Import/export tool for a whole profile. Can we get a cross platform, built-in wizard for exporting and importing profiles? ... and an option to make it automatic? I'm tired of losing a profile when I upgrade my OS simply because I forgot a step (and yes I'm aware of the cloud sync but that's not the answer I'm looking for). Specifically something, that when you hit export, tarball's it and exports it to the folder of your choice. And when you click import, reads the tarball, overwrites the profile in use, and restarts the browser. I don't really care about extensions since they seem to break most often--but just having it to save bookmarks and general options of the browser would be fine.<br></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>FEBE solves this use case. <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/febe/">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/febe/</a><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana">Thank you.<br></span></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><i>A good man fights for himself and his.<br></i></font></div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><i>A great man fights for everyone else.<br></i></font></div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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