Re: Share firefox profile in windows and freebsd!

From: heccj (heccjj1_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/21/05


Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:28:31 +0800

heccj said the following on 2005-3-19 13:39:
> I want to share my firefox 1.0.1 profile in windows xp and
> freebsd 5.3,i do like the
> instruction:http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#move,and
> if there is no extensions in the profile directory,it works
> very well in the two OSs individually.
> But if there are extensions in the profile directory,I can
> olny run with:firefox -safe-mode.It will freeze when i
> use:firefox,obviousely,it's because of the extensions.
> When I setup extensions in windows xp,firefox can't start in
> freebsd,when I setup extensions in freebsd,firefox can't
> start in windows!Why?How to resovle it?
I have got a solution:setup the extensions to the firefox
root directory in two OS like this:

firefox -install-global-extension "xxxxx.xpi"

now dual system can work well,and can share all the profile
data now!
:>



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