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abijr

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Registered: 2008-05-18

Posts: 71

Sharing Mozilla configs?

Hey, I was wondering if I could change the
configuration path of firefox and thunderbird to a
fat partition for windows and linux to share.
I just find anoying to have to update the thunderbird calendar
and firefox passwords and bookmarks through a plugin.

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fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Sharing Mozilla configs?

I've used something like that in the past and it worked well (both FF and TB).  See this guide.  The procedure with TB is analogous.

I haven't tried it with FF3, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work.

Last edited by fwojciec (2008-08-25 20:37:56)

celticmusicguy

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From: Zuni, VA, USA

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 24

Re: Sharing Mozilla configs?

I can confirm that this does work with FF3. The only problem I ran into with the shared profile for Firefox was when I attempted to install AVG 8 in Windows - it automatically installed an extension that worked fine in Windows but caused all my extensions to stop working in Linux. To fix that I just had to uninstall AVG and use something else. I've had no problems with any of the other extensions I use - they work flawlessly no matter which OS I'm using.

Having my profiles on a shared partition has been very useful to me because I've been able to keep them going through a couple of OS reinstalls (mainly when I switched from Debian to Arch) and even my recent complete system rebuild.

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