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How to export your Speed Dial settings
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Monday March 23, 2009
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Monday March 23, 2009
When we did the tutorial on the Speed Dial addon for Firefox we got lots of nice emails about it. Many of the emails wanted to know if it was possible to copy or transfer your work to another copy of Speed Dial. As a matter of fact it's very possible and here's how it's done.
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- In Firefox click on Tools and then on Add-ons.
- When the Add-ons dialog opens up find Speed Dial and click on Options.
- In the Options dialog click on Settings and then in the drop-down click on Export Settings.
- A file dialog will come up and you can determine where to save the settings.
- You can copy this file to another computer or send it by email to yourself.
- In the new copy of Firefox with Speed Dial just repeat the process.
- Click Tools, then Add-ons, the click on Speed Dial, then click on Options.
- Then click on Settings, select Import Settings and select the file you exported.
- Your new copy of Speed Dial will match the original exactly!
- When the Add-ons dialog opens up find Speed Dial and click on Options.
- In the Options dialog click on Settings and then in the drop-down click on Export Settings.
- A file dialog will come up and you can determine where to save the settings.
- You can copy this file to another computer or send it by email to yourself.
- In the new copy of Firefox with Speed Dial just repeat the process.
- Click Tools, then Add-ons, the click on Speed Dial, then click on Options.
- Then click on Settings, select Import Settings and select the file you exported.
- Your new copy of Speed Dial will match the original exactly!
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By webduck about three years ago
(2010-09-08 22:24:00)
(2010-09-08 22:24:00)
It should be as easy and straightforward as you wrote, but it's not. What they really need is a way to sync it all online. I use SD on all my computers, but have never been able to get the export/import to work right. Woe is I.
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