Maxo
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| [FireFox] Probably a silly question
I dual-boot between Ubuntu (Linux) and Win XP. One hard drive is two partitions, ext3 for Ubuntu and NTFS for XP. I have a second FAT32 drive I use for files I want to share. Is there any way I could have a common Profiles folder that both FFs from Windows and Ubuntu could read so I have matching profiles between the two? |
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SNT
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Satellite Beach, FL | You can probably just install and run FF off of the fat drive.
-SNT |
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Maxo
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| said by SNT  :You can probably just install and run FF off of the fat drive. -SNT Well, each OS needs the binary that will run on it's own OS. What I'm not sure is if the profiles are different under each OS, or if they are OS dependant. |
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SNT
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| said by Maxo :said by SNT :You can probably just install and run FF off of the fat drive. -SNT Well, each OS needs the binary that will run on it's own OS. What I'm not sure is if the profiles are different under each OS, or if they are OS dependant. Yup, that's pretty bad. Sorry, no coffee yet.
I have both linux and xp and profile files appear to be the same. |
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WNSmith
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I have found that you can't use the same profiles because of the way both OSs use paths (ie XP has drive letters and Linux does not).
What I usually do is have a 'data' partition that is FAT32 that both can read and write to (in my case a "D" drive). I install FF on both of the OSs. I then move the profile from the XP system to the FAT32 drive and point the Profiles.ini in "C:\Documents and Settings\userid\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\" (userid is your userid) to the new profile on my FAT32 partition (I usually use the same directory structure on the FAT32 partition except it would be D:\Document and Settings\userid\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\.
I then set up symlinks in the Linux profile to point to the files on the FAT32 drive. (ie. bookmarks.hmtl in the Linux partition would really be a symlink to the on on the "D" partition). The when I update from either side it will be reflected on the other.
You will have to play with what files you should symlink but some of the files I symlink are:
Bookmark.html
cert8.db
cookie.txt
key3.db
secmod.db
xxxxx.s (you password file if you store passwords - xxxxx will be a number in the profile on the FAT32 drive - it will be unique)
There may be others depending on your installation.
Good luck and with a little work it will be seamless between the OS.
BTW I do the same structure for Thunderbird. |
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Maxo
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clubs: | Thanks for the reply. I'm definitely interested in doing that, but I have no idea when I'll have time. It's good to know it's doable. Maybe if I get it working I'll write up a how-to. |
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