From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 03:01:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F1FE16A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:01:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from prosporo.hedron.org (hedron.org [66.11.182.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B40B343D2F for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:01:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ean@hedron.org) Received: from localhost.hedron.org (localhost.hedron.org [127.0.0.1]) by prosporo.hedron.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D96C104; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:01:06 -0500 (EST) From: Ean Kingston To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:01:05 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <4235CEA6.7020202@163.com> <2907.216.220.59.169.1110825785.squirrel@216.220.59.169> <4236408B.3090107@163.com> In-Reply-To: <4236408B.3090107@163.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503142201.05764.ean@hedron.org> Subject: Re: firefox share profile in freebsd and windows! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:01:08 -0000 On March 14, 2005 08:55 pm, heccj wrote: > Ean Kingston said the following on 03/15/05 02:43: > >>Perhaps this is not proper site to place this question,but i just meet > >>this problem! > >> > >>I want to share my firefox 1.0.1 profile in windows xp and freebsd 5.3,i > >>can run with:firefox -safe-mode,it will freeze when i > >>use:firefox,obviousely,it's because of the extensions.When you setup > >>extensions in windows xp,firefox can't start in freebsd,when you setup > >>extensions in freebsd,firefox can't start in windows!Why? > > > > Why? Because Windows XP and FreeBSD are completely different operating > > systems. Their binaries are not compatible. > > > >>How to resovle > >>it? > > > > If you can figure out how to keep the extensions directories separate > > while keeping the rest of the preferences the same it should work. > > > > At the worst, you could export your bookmarks from one and import them > > into the other. Then you would just have to go through the preferences > > and make sure the settings are the same otherwise. > > The bookmarks and history or other data can share correctly, Good. > just > extesions!Some extensions can setup into the firefox program dir in > windows(can in freebsd?), I'm not sure what you are trying to say. > but most just setup into the profile extesions > dir. I believe you can simply move the extension to the global extensions directory and restart Firefox. If you try it, make a note of which extensions you moved because you might have to move them back. > If all the extension can select setup dir at setup time,perhaps this > problem can be resolved. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/