Copying blacklist domains for the attention and gesture recorder

As much as I like running the Attention Recorder it is obviously still in its early stages as managing it between multiple machines is not easy. The main problem is the Domain Blacklist. Whenever I add a new domain into my work machine I have to do the same on my laptop. Then today I installed the GestureBank recorder and had to copy all the domains out of the Attention Recorder into it.

Fortunatley if you are a bit techy you can make this easier by opening your Firefox prefs.js file and finding the line that starts like so; user_pref(”attention.blackListDomains”. You can take the value of that and copy it into the other key/value pair that starts with; user_pref(”gesturebank.blackListDomains”.

Thinking about it I wonder if I can simply sync my prefs.js file between machines. I’d love it if it were that simple to sync Firefox and extensions such as GestureBank.

Ultimately though my Attention Trust blacklist shouldn’t be stored with the recorder but with my Attention Trust account. Somewhere. Out there. On the web.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 at 11:38 am and is filed under ATX, Attention, Blacklist, Domain, Extension, Firefox, Recorder, attention trust. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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cori 2 years ago 1 point
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Actually, Paul, there's an easier way...

In Firefox's about:config page copy the values from "attention.blackListDomains" to "gesturebank.blackListDomains". Saves you from having to go to your profile folder to find the information. Also, I believe that user prefs from prefs.js only update when you close Firefox, so domains blacklisted in your current session won't be in that value.

Ideally, you're right. I would necessarily want to have my only copy of my blacklist file stored on the cloud, so a local cache makes sense, but being able to point a browser at an online source would enable not only synching between machines, but also opens the possibility that if you serve your attention stream to multiple services you can have a separate blacklist file for each, should that be desirable.

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