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can I export my whitelist domain list?
I have multiple computers (as do a lot of other people). I want to set up Ghostery whitelist on one computer and it would be nice to sync OR at least export my whitelist so I can import onto the other computers. I don't want to manually enter in all my whitelist domains into all the computers I use. Is there a function like this or can it be added?
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Hi Andres,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
Start by making sure you've installed the same version of Ghostery on both machines.
1. On the old machine, open about:support in a new tab, then press the button that opens the Profile Directory. (You may now close this tab.)
2. Select Tools > Ghostery > Block Log. Click the Clear button, followed by the Close button.
3. Quit Firefox.
4. In the Profile directory, open the prefs.js file using your favorite text editor.
5. Select the lines that begin with user_pref("extensions.ghostery. and save a copy of them inside the ghostery subdirectory as prefs.txt (Quit the text editor.)
6. Archive the ghostery subdirectory, and copy that over to the new machine somehow. (Now delete the prefs.txt file and the archive on the old machine, and close the Profile directory.)
7. On the new machine, open about:support in a new tab, and press the button that opens the Profile Directory. (You may now close this tab.)
8. Quit Firefox.
9. Delete the ghostery subdirectory.
10. Extract the archive you copied from the old machine.
11. Open prefs.js in your favorite text editor. Delete all the lines that begin with user_pref("extensions.ghostery. and replace them with the contents of the prefs.txt file in the replacement ghostery subdirectory. Quit; save changes.
12. Delete the prefs.txt file, as it's no longer needed. (Nor is the archive.) You may now close the Profile directory.Comment -
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In a blatant and self-gratifying display of narcissism, note that I posted up this method here at Ghostery's Get Satisfaction quite some time ago albeit without the finer details.
Kudos to you who posted up the step-by-step.
It should be noted, obviously, that one needs to ignore Mozilla's warning in the prefs.js file, "/* Do not edit this file."
A good practice prior to editing any like file (js, dat, ini, etc.) to right-click the file, select copy, left click and select paste. That way if you booger your edit, which will be quite obvious, you can delete it and rename the copy correctly and start over.
That said, after stopping in here after all this time, I wonder what's holding up a much needed and requested export/import function. Not that in any way detracts from Ghostery being the best-there-is in its class!
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CHAMP
