Fixing Firefox after a user migration in OS X
When I used the (otherwise great) migration assistant to transfer my files from my old MBP to the new one, everything went smoothly. With one exception: Downloading files with Firefox became nearly impossible, since it wanted to save the temp files in a non-existing directory. Why? Because I also changed my username on the new machine (to proactively comply with the OS X Server rules we’ll put in place in the company), so the absolute path to my home folder changed. I googled a bit on it and found something on a system setting “Download Folder”, that should be changeable through Safari. Well, it wasn’t. And then I found this article on macosxhints that did the trick: Open a plist file (feels like the old dirty regedit.exe times) and delete a value. Now I’m back in the game.
