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README: move Backups to 1st subsection of Installation section
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pyllyukko authored Sep 22, 2017
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## Installation

### Backups

Do note that these settings alter your browser behaviour quite a bit, so it is recommended to either create a completely new [profile][15] for Firefox or backup your existing [profile directory](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox) before putting the `user.js` file in place.

To enable the Profile Manager, run Firefox with [command-line arguments](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments): `firefox --no-remote -P`

### Single profile installation

Copy `user.js` in your current user profile directory, or (recommended) to a fresh, newly created Firefox profile directory.
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| Sailfish OS + Alien Dalvik | `/opt/alien/data/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/mozilla/XXXXXXXX.your_profile_name` |
| Windows (portable) | `[firefox directory]\Data\profile\` |

Do note that these settings alter your browser behaviour quite a bit, so it is recommended to either create a completely new [profile][15] for Firefox or backup your existing [profile directory](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox) before putting the `user.js` file in place.

To enable the Profile Manager, run Firefox with [command-line arguments](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments): `firefox --no-remote -P`

With this installation method, if you change any of `user.js` settings through [`about:config`](http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config) or Firefox preferences dialogs, they will be reset to the `user.js` defined values after you restart Firefox. This makes sure they're always back to secure defaults when starting the browser. However this prevents persistently changing settings you don't consider appropriate. Either edit `user.js` directly, or use the system-wide installation method described below.

### System-wide installation (all platforms)
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