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Application of one configuration file in multiple profiles / Symlinks to the config file #208

Closed Uberi-puzo closed 4 years ago

Uberi-puzo commented 4 years ago

First things first, I saw these requests:

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/issues/63 https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/issues/66 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uMatrix-issues/issues/193 https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/issues/433

My question is the following. I have several profiles (FF of the latest version at the moment) on one computer.

I want the same rules to work in multiple browsers. "C:\uMatrix@raymondhill.net\storage.js" already contains my rules.

I created symlinks

mklink "C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\111\browser-extension-data\uMatrix@raymondhill.net\storage.js" "C:\uMatrix@raymondhill.net\storage.js"

mklink "C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\222\browser-extension-data\uMatrix@raymondhill.net\storage.js" "C:\uMatrix@raymondhill.net\storage.js"

I expected the extension to see my rules. But it does not see them, along the path moz-extension://.../dashboard.html#user-rules there are absolutely no rules of mine. Neither in the first browser, nor in the second. Why?

gwarser commented 4 years ago
  1. Storage files on disk are managed by browser.
  2. Prefs in folder browser-extension-data are not used by Firefox for about half year. Moved to storage/default/moz-extension+++per installation ID.
  3. Ask on some Firefox support forum?
  4. Use "Cloud Storage" to sync uMatrix settings.
uBlock-user commented 4 years ago

Create a backup via Backup to file once and restore via Restore from file on any machine with all your settings intact.

Uberi-puzo commented 4 years ago 
2\. Prefs in folder `browser-extension-data` are not used by Firefox for about half year. Moved to `storage/default/moz-extension+++per installation ID`.

So, that’s all what my mistake was and what I needed to know)) Thx.

Below is the instruction:

Find two folders with extension settings, for example:

C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\111\storage\default\moz-extension+++654654y5-65gg-43ff-22qq-42323423r33e

and

C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\111\storage\default\moz-extension+++654654y5-65gg-43ff-22qq-42323423r33e^userContextId=7833621628

You can rename them, I renamed. Not all names are accepted, if you specify the wrong name, the extension will not work in the browser. You can create the same name that I created. userContextId - something like a computer ID, it is the same in different profiles, and occurs many times in the registry in different places. Do not change it.

Now, move the folders to another place and create symlinks

mklink /d "C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\111\storage\default\moz-extension+++00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" "C:\moz-extension+++00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"

mklink /d "C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\111\storage\default\moz-extension+++00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000^userContextId=7833621628" "C:\moz-extension+++00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000^userContextId=7833621628"

You need to fix the prefs.js file in the profile folder. Open it with a text editor and find the extensions.webextensions.uuids parameter. Find the value \"uMatrix@raymondhill.net\":\"654654y5-65gg-43ff-22qq-42323423r33e\" and correct it with \"uMatrix@raymondhill.net\":\"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\" (in my case). Save.

Lastly, launch the browser with the necessary profile, go to the about:addons tab and turn it off and then turn on the uMatrix extension. That's all, I checked in two profiles launched at the same time that there were no conflicts when creating rules, saving, closing the browser, then opening and loading the rules. But I can not guarantee that there will be no problems later))