Monthly Archives: July 2015

How to Move Thunderbird to Another Computer

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It is very similar to moving Firefox to another Computer.

  1. Run a new installer of Thunderbird on the new computer, in this case 38.1.0. On my old computer I had in use version 31.7.0
  2. Locate the Thunderbird profile folder on the old computer. For this, open menu-help-troubleshooting information-profile folder-show folder.
  3. The content of your profile folder will be shown in an explorer. The name of the folder will probably something cryptic like 6wm13muk.default and the location somwhere below AppData.
  4. Locate the Thunderbird profile folder on the new computer.
  5. Close Thunderbird and empty the profile folder on the new computer.
  6. Copy the content of the profile folder from the old PC into the profile folder on the new computer.
  7. Done. This worked perfectly for me. All settings, connections, mails and addresses all the addons with all their settings are used on the new computer now.

Time needed: 5 minutes for finding the solution on the internet, 5 minutes for executing it. Next time I’ll be 5 minutes faster 🙂

How to Move Firefox to Another Computer

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It is way more easy than you would think. I’ve done this with Firefox ESR 31.8.0.

  1. Run an installer of your Firefox branch on the new computer. In my case, I had an installer for Firefox ESR 24.8.1 laying around. I’ve installed this version on the new computer.
  2. Let FF do all the updates automatically. Soon you’ll have the current version on the new PC.
  3. Locate the FF profile folder on the old computer. For this, open menu-help-information for debugging-profile folder-show folder. Then close FF on the old computer.
  4. The content of your profile folder will be shown in an explorer. The name of the folder will probably something cryptic like ixcc3muk.default.
  5. Locate the FF profile folder on the new computer.
  6. Close FF and empty the profile folder on the new computer.
  7. Copy the content of the profile folder on the old PC into the profile folder on the new computer.
  8. Done. This worked like a charm for me. All Firefox settings and bookmarks and all the addons with all their settings are used on the new computer now.

Time needed: Half an hour for finding the solution on the internet, 5 minutes for executing it. Next time I’ll be 30 minutes faster 🙂

Update, Nov 2017:
This way, I could even transfer all the FF settings from a windows PC to a Linux box. Used version was Firefox ESR 52.5.

LeechBlock is a Junkie’s Cure From Heaven

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I have a problem. I’m a junkie. A news junkie.
Which means I can spent hours reading news pages and their user comments.

It is totally annoying. Especially, because in real terms, there are about only three different types of user comments. And if you have read one example of each type, reading any of those 9487 other comments is a pure waste of time.

Not enough, I also read the same news on different news sites. And again the same user comments. I hate it.

Now I’ve stumbled across LeechBlock. It is a plugin for Firefox with which you can block sites to your liking.

Installing it is done in seconds, and my first block set was set up in a minute or so. I’ve only read the blocking examples to set up my block set.

Now I’m self-restricted to 20 minutes of news sites per day.

Leechblock already saved me more time than I needed to install it and set it up. And I’ve installed it just today.

It is truly relieving.

The only problem is, it does not block as long as I only click on further user comments. Probably it cannot intercept JavaScript or so. I hope this will be fixed in a further version.

Until then, I’ve added the LeechBlock timer to my toolbar, so that I can see how much time I’ve left for news. I hope this timer will help me to discipline myself.