[PrivacyBadger] Import/Export feature

[Cooper Quintin]

I think that copying the entire profile and having a sync button is
probably not the way to go here. Instead we should have a way to export
the privacy badger data structures to a JSON file and then import that
file. This avoids the complexity of having to do filesystem io and also
avoids any messy syncing logic. Lets start by doing this on chrome and
maybe we can use the same code in the android version.

- Cooper

On 11/09/2015 03:56 AM, Aditi Bhatnagar wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I wish to work
> onhttps://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/issues/632
> <https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/issues/632>
> 
> I propose that when privacy badger is installed on any browser, either
> it should detect, if possible, if it has been already installed on other
> browsers on current system and opens up a prompt asking user if s/he
> wants to sync the previous settings or it should ask after installation
> , if the user wants to import the settings from other profiles, if yes
> we should perform the copy of entire
> \AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\w59orosd.Privacy
> Badger\jetpack\jid1-MnnxcxisBPnSXQ at jetpack\ directory as suggested. Or
> we can even have a sync button, on top right , may be that on click
> would ask user to sync from which browser/profile and accordingly copies
> the files.
> (Assuming the location of files in conventional manner.)
> 
> We can even think of further extending this sync functionality once we
> have Privacy Badger for mobile so that user can sync his/her settings
> from Desktop Firefox to Mobile Firefox.
> 
> Any suggestions on how can I go about implementing this feature?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Aditi Bhatnagar
> (nextLane)
> 
> 
> 
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