I have the BetterPrivacy addon on Palemoon for Windows and want to add it to Palemoon on my Linux box.
The only place I find to download it is softonic and I don't trust them not to install other things or swap browsers.
Is there a procedure where I can extract BetterPrivacy from the Windows machine and install it on the Linux machine?
Moving add on from Windows to Linux [solved]
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Moving add on from Windows to Linux [solved]
Last edited by Tony0945 on 2018-08-11, 21:19, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Moving add on from Windows to Linux
Yes, your add-ons are located in the extensions directory in your profile and you should be able to copy them between profiles.
On Windows, your profile should be somewhere in AppData; on Linux, you'll be looking for ~/.moonchild productions/pale moon/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.Name of your profile/extensions/.
On Windows, your profile should be somewhere in AppData; on Linux, you'll be looking for ~/.moonchild productions/pale moon/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.Name of your profile/extensions/.
Re: Moving add on from Windows to Linux
Specifically, C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Moonchild Productions\Pale Moon\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default is your profile folder on Windows, then your extensions are in the extensions folder under that.SpockFan02 wrote:On Windows, your profile should be somewhere in AppData;
An easier way to get to your profile is in Pale Moon, under Help > Troubleshooting Information, look for "Profile Folder" under "Application Basics" and then click on the "Open Folder" button.
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Re: Moving add on from Windows to Linux
Thanks all! I saw that I had an xpi file with the name in my Windows Downloads directory. I used SAMBA to copy this to my Linux desktop (Mate). Vaguely remembering this from Windows and Firefox, I left moused down on the desktop xpi file, dragged it to the Palemoon icon and dropped it. It worked!
I do appreciate knowing how to do it the right way. With all those extension links going away, existing installations will be the only source.
And I suppose they won't work on the new Beta Palemoon?
I do appreciate knowing how to do it the right way. With all those extension links going away, existing installations will be the only source.
And I suppose they won't work on the new Beta Palemoon?
Re: Moving add on from Windows to Linux [solved]
Depends entirely on the extension. The few that I use regularly all work fine on both PM 27.x and the forthcoming PM 28. However, there have been enough big back-end changes in PM 28 that some existing extensions that work with PM 27.x will have to be updated/modified to work with PM 28. I'm not sure if BetterPrivacy is one of those.Tony0945 wrote:And I suppose they won't work on the new Beta Palemoon?
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Re: Moving add on from Windows to Linux [solved]
I see I have the older version 1.68 anyway. But it is better than nothing.Nigaikaze wrote: I'm not sure if BetterPrivacy is one of those.