topic Syncing installed dictionaries like extensions in Discussions

Syncing installed dictionaries like extensions

ineuw — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 06:49:40 GMT

When rebuilding my profile, sync restores the installed extensions, but not my dictionaries. Can you please include installed dictionaries as well?

Re: Syncing installed dictionaries like extensions

jeffC — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 23:50:26 GMT

People have been asking for this for at least 16 years:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409969

Mozilla seems not to have the developers to do this.

Re: Syncing installed dictionaries like extensions

ineuw — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 03:12:32 GMT

At this time, my only choice is to use a cron job to copy the file to a FreeFileSync managed folder for Google Drive.
A nice Firefox solution would be to export the file on shutdown like it does for bookmarks.html.
These are made up
user_pref("browser.persdict.autoExportText", true);
// place a copy on Google Drive on shutdown
user_pref("browser.persdict.dat", "/media/gdrive/firefox/dictionary/persdict.dat");