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firefox profile maintain question

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耀彰
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Hi, Because I need to copy prefs.js to a lot of computer, but I can not get real path of each computers, because the profile is different by user account, such as C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ih5200jy.default-1610618740717\prefs.js, How can I finish do it ? Thanks a lot.

Hi, Because I need to copy prefs.js to a lot of computer, but I can not get real path of each computers, because the profile is different by user account, such as C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ih5200jy.default-1610618740717\prefs.js, How can I finish do it ? Thanks a lot.

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cor-el
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Why do you want to copy prefs.js to other computers (profiles) ?

This file contains profile specific user_pref settings and it is usually not a good idea to copy this file. There are other ways to transfer settings or initialize settings like autoconfig.cfg or policies.json.

耀彰
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Because I want to copy about:config setting to another computer, like https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1322272. After I test, I should copy the file to do it.