Backup/restore/sync configurations

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FULL Options Backup to be included soon?

Better use Firefox's sync.

Hi cad1llac, thanks for using Ghostery.

A feature like this will eventually make its way into Ghostery (maybe through Mozilla Sync, but its up in the air just now), but heres a simple explanation on how to move your blocking settings over:

In the profile directory your of your Firefox (about:support) you will see a directory called ghostery. Copy this directory to the new profile and you are done.

Hi dallas77us,

There is no official way to export your site exemptions yet. However, you could export them in a manual process. Here are the steps for Google Chrome:

1) Go to chrome://extensions/
2) Enable Developer mode (find and check the checkbox)
3) Expand the row for Ghostery and click on Inspect background.html
4) In the Developer Tools window that comes up, make sure you are on the Console tab.
5) You can export your site exemptions by typing

localStorage.site_whitelist

into the console.

6) You could at a later point import your whitelist by typing

localStorage.site_whitelist = "["site1.com","site2.com"]"

into the console, where the stuff to the right of the equals sign is the text you previously saved from localStorage.site_whitelist.

You have to restart the browser after importing your site exemptions to have your changes take effect.

Be careful when importing as mistakes in the console could lead to losing your Ghostery preferences.

Let me know if you have any questions.

FULL Options Backup to be included soon?

Here are the docs for Dragonfly: http://www.opera.com/dragonfly/docume...

I'll refer to them in the steps below.

To migrate your tracker selections from one Opera browser to another:

1. Launch Dragonfly (as described in the docs).
2. Select the debugging context (also in the docs) for Ghostery. Ghostery should be on the bottom of the list, under italicized text that says "Opera Extensions".
3. Make sure Dragonfly's Console tab is selected (should be the right-most tab).
4. Type the following into the >>> prompt under the Console tab and press Enter when finished:

window.widget.preferences.selected_app_ids

5. If you are in the right place and context, you should see a bunch of text, mostly numbers in quotes printed back to the console. Great!
6. Copy the text that was printed exactly how it was printed. This is important. Extra spacing or anything else extra could screw up this process.
7. Get it over to the other Opera browser somehow, making sure to preserve the text as is.
8. Install Ghostery in the other browser, open Dragonfly, select Ghostery's debugging context, select the Console tab (steps 1-3). Steps 4-5 should produce the following:

"{}"

9. If so, great! You're in the right place. This means this Ghostery install doesn't have anything selected. If you see a bunch of numbers, that means you already selected some trackers, which is fine too.
10. Paste the text you copied in step 6 into the >>> prompt in the console. Do not press Enter yet.
11. Replace the first and the last characters of what you pasted, which must be double quotes (") with single quotes ('). Then, prepend the text with

window.widget.preferences.selected_app_ids =

12. You should now see something like the following:

window.widget.preferences.selected_app_ids = '{"2":1,"3":1,"5":1, ... "1447":1}'

13. Press Enter. Restart the browser. You should now have the same trackers selected for blocking in both browsers.

Let me know if anything is unclear.

Wow!, Alexei. Thank you so much for taking the time to prepare these detailed instructions! After making precautionary backups, etc., I will attempt them directly. Thanks again!

Hi Ed

Thanks for using Ghostery! Feedback is much appreciated!

Hi Anish,

Thanks for using Ghostery!

We are looking into this feature. The blog post details what options are available as of now.

Hi George,

Which browser do you use, and which other add-ons have this feature?

ah.. ok.. We have that on our roadmap but nothing scheduled as of yet. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I would like to do that as well, it would be nice for us who have multiple computers and use Chrome in all of them.

Hi Sue,

Thanks for using Ghostery!

There are some instructions at the top of this thread for exporting features. We are working on making this an actual feature from the options rather than the way it is listed now. But.. this is what we got so far. Hope it helps!

For Ghostery 5+ please follow these instructions:

1. Open Firefox
2. Navigate (put in url bar) about:support
3. Click on "Show Folder" for the Profile Folder
4. Navigate into "jetpack" directory and copy "firefox@ghostery.com" folder to the destination computers Profile Folder. If destination does not have "jetpack" top level directory, create it first.
5. Destination will now have the same settings for Ghostery as configured on the source computer.

Opera 12.17 was a Windows-only release of the classic [Presto-based] browser. Opera 15+ is completely different inside (very similar to Google Chrome; hence, Ghostery 5.3.0 for Chrome and Opera are themselves very similar).

Unfortunately, there's no upgrade path from Ghostery 0.10.0. That doesn't mean there's no way to preserve its settings — just no easy way. It is possible using Opera Dragonfly, if you're very, very careful.



I don't know if there's enough demand to justify the effort required to come up with a better solution.

If you're using Opera 12.16 (OS X, Linux) or 12.17 (Windows), the only supported version of Ghostery is 0.10.0. Ghostery for Opera 5.3.0 requires a Blink-based browser, currently Opera 22.0.1471.50 (Windows, OS X).

Given that Windows XP is no longer receiving security support from Microsoft, you should give serious thought to some sort of migration plan.