[opensuse] Is there a way to take a customized FF to another user?
Hi, As i have to install a lot lately, i also have to create new users. This means new /homes, with bold, plain ff. My question is how to 'import/export' or copy all the addons and settings to another user? Same question for TB, to save time installing/configuring and setting up accounts etc. tia.. -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.29-rc8-5-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.2 Alpha 0 (x86_64) KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 1" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 03:06:36 am Oddball wrote:
Hi,
As i have to install a lot lately, i also have to create new users. This means new /homes, with bold, plain ff. My question is how to 'import/export' or copy all the addons and settings to another user? Same question for TB, to save time installing/configuring and setting up accounts etc.
Copy ~/.mozilla to new home before you start Firefox for the first time and it will pick up your old settings. I'm not sure about plugins, they may reside elsewhere on the system. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Copy ~/.mozilla to new home before you start Firefox for the first time and it will pick up your old settings. I'm not sure about plugins, they may reside elsewhere on the system.
Plugins: elsewhere in system Addons / Extensions: right there in the profile folder (which is in ~/.mozilla) -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dotan Cohen schreef:
Copy ~/.mozilla to new home before you start Firefox for the first time and it will pick up your old settings. I'm not sure about plugins, they may reside elsewhere on the system.
Plugins: elsewhere in system Addons / Extensions: right there in the profile folder (which is in ~/.mozilla)
addons, i thought so.. default plugins will be there, they allways are.. tnx. -- Have a nice day ;) Oddball aka M9. OS: Linux 2.6.27.19-3.2-pae i686 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@EEEPC-901-ROB Systeem: openSUSE 11.1 (i586) KDE: 4.1.3 (KDE 4.1.3) "release 75.3" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
addons, i thought so.. default plugins will be there, they allways are.. tnx.
Some plugins, such as vlc / mplayer integration, are not in there. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dotan Cohen schreef:
addons, i thought so.. default plugins will be there, they allways are.. tnx.
Some plugins, such as vlc / mplayer integration, are not in there.
No, i mean the default: icedtea, flash, and the other two that come with ff. All others have to be installed by yourself, but that is allways less work, than when you have to do everything yourself.. ;) -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.29-rc8-5-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.2 Alpha 0 (x86_64) KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 1" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M. schreef:
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 03:06:36 am Oddball wrote:
Hi,
As i have to install a lot lately, i also have to create new users. This means new /homes, with bold, plain ff. My question is how to 'import/export' or copy all the addons and settings to another user? Same question for TB, to save time installing/configuring and setting up accounts etc.
Copy ~/.mozilla to new home before you start Firefox for the first time and it will pick up your old settings. I'm not sure about plugins, they may reside elsewhere on the system.
Sounds good. The plugins must be in ~/, most likely in the same dir [wolfgang?] as allways with every new install mounting an old /home, the plugins are checked and installed. Next time i'll try this, today i installed all by hand, i know what i need, but it takes a lot of time Today i saw while importing addresses in TB, that it is also possible to im/export settings and mail, i'll try that next time also, which will be tomorrow or so. thnx for the involvement.. -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.29-rc8-5-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.2 Alpha 0 (x86_64) KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 1" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 01:49:38 pm Oddball wrote:
Today i saw while importing addresses in TB, that it is also possible to im/export settings and mail, i'll try that next time also, which will be tomorrow or so.
The Thunderbird has the ~/.thunderbird directory that works the same way as Firefox. Move it to new location and then start Thunderbird. The export and import functions are meant to and from other mail clients. You don't need them to move stuff from one TB installation to the other. I wish that KMail has that as simple. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M. schreef:
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 01:49:38 pm Oddball wrote:
Today i saw while importing addresses in TB, that it is also possible to im/export settings and mail, i'll try that next time also, which will be tomorrow or so.
The Thunderbird has the ~/.thunderbird directory that works the same way as Firefox. Move it to new location and then start Thunderbird. The export and import functions are meant to and from other mail clients. You don't need them to move stuff from one TB installation to the other.
I wish that KMail has that as simple.
Ah, ok, i thought it also could be used as ex/importing an addressbook: export to a dir of choice, and than import from the other client . I could imagine the settings and mail would work the same way... Did you try that? -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.29-rc8-5-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.2 Alpha 0 (x86_64) KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 1" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 03:26:15 am Oddball wrote:
Ah, ok, i thought it also could be used as ex/importing an addressbook: export to a dir of choice, and than import from the other client . I could imagine the settings and mail would work the same way... Did you try that?
I didn't Robby. Even when I moved from Thunderbird to KMail, I just copied TB mailbox to KMail directory with mails and then started KMail. All of TB mails were in one folder. I selected all messages with Ctrl-A and ran filters that moved stuff to KMail folders. The job was done. Of course, that operation runs very slow, so don't ever start it when you are in hurry. Depends on computer speed and amount of mails, it can take up to few hours. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M. schreef:
I didn't Robby. Even when I moved from Thunderbird to KMail, I just copied TB mailbox to KMail directory with mails and then started KMail. All of TB mails were in one folder. I selected all messages with Ctrl-A and ran filters that moved stuff to KMail folders. The job was done. Of course, that operation runs very slow, so don't ever start it when you are in hurry. Depends on computer speed and amount of mails, it can take up to few hours.
Must have been about gaziljon mails than, or you use an antique cpu? (just joking, no offense..;) -- Have a nice day ;) Oddball aka M9. OS: Linux 2.6.27.19-3.2-pae i686 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@EEEPC-901-ROB Systeem: openSUSE 11.1 (i586) KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 106" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 08:33:00 am Oddball wrote:
Must have been about gaziljon mails than, or you use an antique cpu? (just joking, no offense..;)
I did that some 2 years ago, and CPU was Athlon XP 2000+, which wasn't the fastest at the time, but I wasn't really impressed when I acquired 64 bit 3500+. Working with images was really fast, but emails are bunch of small files where hard disk performace is more important, and there wasn't much difference. BTW, that was the reason to switch to mbox format from KMail default maildir. The mbox keeps all emails in one file, so hard disk performace was important only once when that file was read in RAM. Well, story is not that simple, you have to copy your whole Mail directory to for instance Mailone, remove Mail and rename Mailone to Mail, every once in a while. That is replacement for disk defragmenter. Thanks to the way ext3 is handling that once is a while doesn't mean once a month, merely once in a year, and only for something like mbox that is used daily and growing fast. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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