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September 2015
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Requesting screencaps

The FAQs are coming along. I'd like to include screencaps for as many of the "this is where your user styles are" instructions as possible, and I find I need some help with that.

In particular, since the chrome folder of Firefox is such a pain to find, I'd like to have screencaps of Explorer windows showing how to navigate to chrome. Like this, only starting from a C drive instead of the odd filepath my H drive takes. *disgruntled* If the computers at work weren't arranged for mobile desktops, I'd be able to do at least one of these myself. Oh well.

If I could get screencaps for the following filepaths:

In 95/98 C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\chrome\
(95, not 93. ^_^; Thanks, nostariel; must remember not to write while falling asleep!)

In XP/2000 navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\chrome\

In Vista navigate to C:\users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\chrome\

I have the screencaps for Mac, both Firefox and Safari, covered myself.

Comments

You want screencaps for Linux, too?

If it's not any trouble, yeah. Since user styles are going to be a whole new idea to most people, I figure we should give as many explicit pointers as we can!

I got screencaps in Thunar (XFCE) and Konqueror (KDE). I don't have Nautilus nor whatever the new file manager for KDE4's called, though.

And I just thought that for Linux, using the terminal would be easier, so here are the instructions, for you to copy-paste where you need them:

$ cd ~/mozilla/firefox/
$ ls

At this point, there should be a couple of files as well as at least one folder, whose name is a random string of letters and digits, plus ".default". This is your profile folder.

$ cd ########.default/chrome/
$ ls

Now you are in the Chrome folder, which should contain two files called userChrome-example.css and userContent-example.css. Create a user stylesheet by copying the existing example and open it in your favourite text-editor:

$ cp userContent-example.css userContent.css
$ nano userContent.css

*nodnod* That looks good. And, yeah, for commandline screencaps are usually pretty pointless. ^_^ These will be great.

*facepalm* Just realised that there was a typo up there. There should be a dot before mozilla, in the first line, so that it reads $ cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/.

Ok, I'm back with some Win98 screencaps that almost make sense this time (that'll teach me to do things at 3 AM)! Unfortunately my box is heavily customized and I have approximately 10 gazillion programs installed, so there was scrolling and multiple screenshots involved. (-_-;;)

One - tree navigation (plain).

Two - whole window.

Three - tree navigation (highlighted).

You totally rock; those are perfect for what we need! Thank you!