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Hi. I use PaleMoon 27.4.2 in Puppylinux Lucid 5.2.8.7, and I will update to the latest PaleMoon 27.5.0 just released. At my previous update, I reused the /root/.monchild productions file from 27.4.1, which was heavily modified in about:config.
How do I keep my mods when upgrading to 27.5.0? Are they all stored in prefs.js, so that I can find the diffs between old and new, and append mods from the old prefs.js, or are there better methods?

The following is related to Firefox, but this does not seem to have changed from the time of the Pale Moon fork. According to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/965842 your about:config preferences are stored in the prefs.js file in the user profile. If you want to carry over saved passwords, cookies for logins, etc, look at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data Note that if you have multiple profiles, there is a separate sub-directory, with its own set of files, for each profile.

Executive summary; re-using your previous ".moonchild productions" directory keeps your old settings. You may want to keep multiple backups of of that directory, just in case something goes badly wrong.

Thank you, Walter. I'll run a diff to ensure that the latest changes are included in the prefs. And thank you for the links, there I found another link: http://kb.mozillazine.org/About_protocol_links. It lists all the about:-files.

doffen

doffen wrote:Thank you, Walter. I'll run a diff to ensure that the latest changes are included in the prefs. And thank you for the links, there I found another link: http://kb.mozillazine.org/About_protocol_links. It lists all the about:-files.

doffen

Use "about:about" in the address bar.

Thank you billmcct, that solution was way too simple to figure out for me!

doffen