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Date:	Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:55:23 PDT7
From:	Martin Rosenfeld <rosenfeldmj@comcast.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Firefox Options Won't Stick...?

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Ray,

Thanks.

OK, none of my prefs.js files had anything but archive bit set.

When I try to go to certain sites, especially eBay, I variably get
refused for lack of security or I get in. It is very confuding.

Martin

> Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
>
>> Tom,
>>
>> I don't think prefs.js has any attribute set. I say I don't think
>> because I don't know which prefs.js to check! I have MOZILLA_HOME set
>> to a Profile directory. That is where my plugins live, because they
>> say as much. In that directory there is Mozilla--Profiles--Firefox in
>> which there is a prefs.js, and in the Profile directory there is
>> Thunderbird under which there is a xxxxx.default with prefs.js. Which
>> prefs.js is active? Is it the same file for Thunderbird as for
>> Firefox? Life used to be so much simpler!
>
>
> The Mozilla family has three "released" branches; SM, FF and TB. Each
> needs one profile, and prefs.js & optionally user.js, to cover all
> versions of each. You can have more, don't need more. The active prefs
> is the one associated with the product(s) that is running.
>
> Ray
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