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Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:07:59 PST8
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Edit Zilla profile ?

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Peter Skye wrote:

> Gary Granat wrote:
>
>>If I were doing this, I would open the Mozilla Product
>>folder and use the Mozilla Profile Manager ;-)
>
>
> Well mr. ";-)" it just so happens that I can't find that either.
> Whereabouts should I be lookin'?

In the Mozilla folder that gets created when you install Mozilla via the
installer. However, all the Profile Manager does is create/rename/delete
user profiles. It does NOT provide any way to change the preferences.
When you click Edit > Preferences in any Moz window, you are actually
making changes to the PREFS.JS file which is where your "profile"
information is stored. Not all preferences can be changed via this
method. In a browser window, you can enter about:config in the URL box
to get a list of all (I *think*) the preferences. You can RMB on any of
these and modify them. This is like mucking about with the OS/2 .INI
files, however. Make sure you know what you are doing and have a backup!
You can kill Moz by messing it up. If Mozilla doesn't like what it sees,
it may create a new prefs.js file for you, wiping out your old one.

You can also make manual changes to prefs.js, but you have to do it when
Mozilla is not running. It rewrites prefs.js from memory when you close
it, so all manual changes you make while it is open are lost. A better
way to modify your preferences is to create a file in the same directory
as prefs.js called user.js. Values you enter here are merged into
prefs.js when Mozilla is opened. This method makes is somewhat easier to
avoid messing things up. Any changer to either file should be kept in
alpha sequence.

HTH

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Tom Brown
thombrown@san.rr.com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E. & SDAA
running eComStation GA + FP 3
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