3 Dec 2015 shlomif   » (Master)

Tech Tip: Locally Host the Firefox’s Personas Favourites File

A constant annoyance when trying to use the Firefox extension “Personas Rotator” was that downloading the favourites file from the Firefox addons site failed, which made it stop rotating. I recently found a solution for that which I'd like to share.

First of all, login to the Mozilla addons site and access and bookmark the JSON data file’s URL. Save it to a file and host it using a local HTTP service (such as Apache, the one line Python HTTP service command line, or sthttpd’s “thttpd -p $PORT” invocation).

Then, go to Firefox’s “about:config”, access the “extensions.personas.favorites-feed.url” key and change it to the locally served one. It should work fine after restarting Firefox, and one upside to it would be that you no longer need to be logged in to addons.mozilla.org for it to work.

Remember to save the file again every once-in-a-while, after you have added new favourites. A final note is that a “file://” URL may work fine as well, but I have not tried it yet.

Happy rotating, and Shanah Tovah if appropriate!

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Copyright by Shlomi Fish, 2015.

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Syndicated 2015-09-15 12:18:06 from shlomif

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