Firefox plist file

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Firefox plist file

I cannot find the "org.mozillafirefox.plist" file in my Preferences folder and a search with the "Find" app doesn't find it anywhere on my computer. Is there an explanation for this?

G3 (B&W), Mac OS X (10.2.x), 640 MB RAM

Posted on Apr 11, 2008 5:51 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 11, 2008 6:48 AM in response to Mario Palmieri

If you are doing a search using the full name you provided (org.mozillafirefox.plist), the actual name is "org.mozilla.firefox.plist" and the file should be located in the Library>Preferences folder.

Do a search just using "firefox" and you will probably find the file.

If the file has some how been "lost", opening Firefox should create a new preference file.

 Cheers, Tom 😉

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Answer 2

Apr 11, 2008 7:02 AM in response to Texas Mac Man

O.K., Tom, thanks. I corrected the name but still no go. Search for "firefox" or "mozilla" finds nothing. The plist does not appear on restarts, so the usual normal stuff is not happening .... it just ain't there! 🙂

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Answer 3

Apr 11, 2008 4:50 PM in response to Mario Palmieri

You have posed a very narrow question, and Tom has attempted to answer that narrow question.

When I search for that file under 10.4, I do not find it, or any thing even vaguely resembling it. Maybe it does not exist. Mozilla makes software for several different platforms, and is under no obligation to use any particular naming scheme for the Mac version.

Perhaps if you explained what fundamental problem you are trying to solve folks here could help you think about it and solve it instead of trying to chase down a file that may or may not exist.

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Answer 4

Apr 11, 2008 8:37 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Thanks, Grant, for that insight and for your experience with this issue. I was getting some peculiar behaviors with Firefox and sought to resort to the "standard" practice of trashing the preferences. I never had reason, over a few years,to trash Firefox preferences and so I cannot even be sure that the file ever existed, either in the current version or earlier versions, because I had never looked for it.

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Answer 5

Apr 12, 2008 5:48 PM in response to Mario Palmieri

To All:

Grant is right. Mozilla support online reveals that a preference folder, such as we are accustomed to for Mac apps, is not created by default for Firefox. There is an analogous procedure available but it's too complicated for me so I'm dropping the whole subject. Anyway, I now know why I can't find a preferences folder. 🙂

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