Multi-booting Linux & XP

[slowcoach]

If you are dual booting Linux and Windows and you use Firefox or Thunderbird on both you can keep both in sync by following the notes in this blog:
http://blog.nikolaidis.com/index.php?paged=2

[dragon]

Originally Posted by slowcoach

If you are dual booting Linux and Windows and you use Firefox or Thunderbird on both you can keep both in sync by following the notes in this blog:
http://blog.nikolaidis.com/index.php?paged=2

Personally speaking google browser sync does it for me
then for thunderbird I use an IMAP server and the sync kolab extension to handle the address book, calender.etc

[Alien]

Originally Posted by slowcoach

If you are dual booting Linux and Windows and you use Firefox or Thunderbird on both you can keep both in sync by following the notes in this blog:
http://blog.nikolaidis.com/index.php?paged=2

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:

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/7nygrovw.default

[Profile1]
Name=NameOfProfileYouWantToUse
IsRelative=0
Path=X:\Path of your existing Firefox Profile
Default=1

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.

[Cobbydaler]

<snip> 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.

You just need to start FF with the -ProfileManager switch...

[dragon]

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.

[Alien]

Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

You just need to start FF with the -ProfileManager switch...

Cheers dude.

Originally Posted by dragon

-ProfileManager

add that to the firefox.exe shortcut if you want it to load profile manager.

The installer used to put 1 in the program group for it on the Start menu, I wonder why they don't do that anymore?

Originally Posted by dragon

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

I suppose that might be of use between multiple computers [though if I were doing that I'd probably get a USB key & use the portable version of Firefox], but when it's on the same computer, just different Operating Systems, I would have thought that the different installs all using the same profile stored in the same place would be simpler.

[dragon]

Originally Posted by Alien

Cheers dude.


The installer used to put 1 in the program group for it on the Start menu, I wonder why they don't do that anymore?


I suppose that might be of use between multiple computers [though if I were doing that I'd probably get a USB key & use the portable version of Firefox], but when it's on the same computer, just different Operating Systems, I would have thought that the different installs all using the same profile stored in the same place would be simpler.

Maybe But its also handy if you wipe the OS and forget to copy the profile first..

Also less chance if one of them storing something the other doesn't like such as some extensions which are platform specific E.g Ietab