Restore settings

Restore settings

YouTube + v1.4.1 is now a WebExtension and as a result of this transition any previous settings need to be restored manually. For more information see the following links:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1214790

https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/updating-users-from-sdk-based-extension-to-webextension/9974

To restore your previous YT+ settings follow these steps:

• Open your Firefox browser
• Enter about:support on your URL bar
• In the Application Basics table click the Show Folder button
• A desktop window will open
• In that window open the folder jetpack
• Open the folder [email protected] (or [email protected])
• Open the folder simple-storage
• Open the file store.json with any text editor
• Delete {"particleSettings": in the beginning
• Replace }} with } in the end of the file
• Copy all the remaining text
• Return to your Firefox browser and open a YouTube page
• Open the YT+ settings by clicking the dark triangle located on the top right of your page
• Click the 💾 (floppy disk) icon next to the Reset button
• Replace the current settings with the settings you copied previously
• Click Save and load
• Restart Firefox

Your previous settings are now restored

NOTE: The webextension information box will show up again after importing your previous settings and this is normal, just click the close button.