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In the coming months, users encountering problems with Firefox will increasingly be guided to the new reset feature, which migrates their bookmarks, form/password auto-fill, cookies, and history to a new profile leaving everything else behind. See Reset Firefox – easily fix most problems | How to | Firefox Help.

Users who then reinstall add-ons, including userscripts, will discover that their old settings are gone. Some might be able to extract them by hand from the prefs.js file in the old profile folder, but others will not have the wherewithal to do that and will end up starting from scratch.

Since my Google script depends on Firefox preferences, I'm trying to think of a good way to offer settings recovery in the event of a reset (particularly if, in the future, the old profile is summarily deleted). While it isn't technically difficult to post the settings to a web-based database, I am concerned about security and privacy, and authentication looks like a major headache to implement.

Anyone have an elegant solution to this (coming) problem?

Jefferson Scher wrote:
Anyone have an elegant solution to this (coming) problem?

In the meantime for user.js if there are preferences stored it may be a good idea to write future user.js with a UI that has an export settings capability such as GM_config or some other proprietary method. The old profile should still be accessible for manual exporting.