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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

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/.