Automating Firefox configuration settings

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Published on 2009-05-13T16:18:41Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 0:03 UTC
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Hi All,

During web development work, I need to be able to quickly switch various config settings in Firefox. In particular I need to be able to:

1) Switch off cookies 2) Switch off javascript 3) Switch my user agent (I have the user-agent switcher add-on installed)

and then back again.

Instead of doing this manually, it would be great if i could add a "macro" button to my toolbar that I could simply click to toggle the three settings above.

Anyone know if this is possible?

Btw - Firefox Profiles doesn't really cut it. You can't dynamically switch profiles within a specific Firefox instance, which I need to be able to do.

Btw2 - I got excited when i saw Greasemonkey, Chicken Foot, but it looks like these can only automate browsing/DOM tasks, and not with firefox configuration settings.

Thanks Richard.

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