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Originally Posted by Alien
Cheers for that.  Only had a brief look at it, but will get round to having a proper look at it later. It did inspire me to look into how & where the Windows versions of Firefox & Thunderbird reference their profiles. As a result, I think I now know how to do the same thing between 32 & 64bit XP as well [or other versions of Windows, if anyone else wants to try it].
Note: I haven't actually tried it yet, so make a backup copy of your profile before you try it. 
In your alternate version of Windows [XP x64 in my case, though I would expect it would work for Vista as well, unless MS has changed where Application Data is put], open the relevant files listed below [just paste the whole line into either the Run window or the filename box in the Open File dialogue of your favourite text editor].
%userprofile%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini
%userprofile%\Application Data\Thunderbird\profiles.ini
You'll need to have run whichever prog you're dealing with already on your alternate install of Windows, so that it will have created a profile, then edit the .ini file. Example:
The profile name for Profile0 is randomly generated by Firefox. Speaking of profiles & Firefox, whatever happened to the Profile Manager? I seem to remember there being 1 in earlier versions, but can't seem to find it now.  |
-ProfileManager
add that to the firefox.exe shortcut if you want it to load profile manager.
Personally Google browser sync is far easier since it syncs your bookmarks, history, cookies.etc automatically
It can do saved passwords as well if you set it to
Edit: seems Cobbydaler beat me to it.