Hi Eric, for the additional info on the behavior of Systemback. I'll be
looking at that soon. Also the confirmation that /etc/skel is fully respected
as the general-purpose tool for propagating files to new users. It seems like
it would probably work for my purposes.
But to raise a few prospective issues: I'm talking about propagating a Firefox
setup on a single machine to additional new users. The skel method would
create identically-named profiles for each of those users, which is not what
Firefox does in an ordinary new installation. But that would not be a problem
because they would be in different sessions and not know about each other,
unless perhaps the user made use of the Firefox Sync feature? Do cookies use
the profile name?
And in the meantime, I found veteran Firefox developer Mike Kaply and the many
informative articles that he has generously written. For instance:
Integrating Add-ons into Firefox
Distribution.ini
Default Preferences Files
Autoconfig Files
Default Profiles
Those articles provide at least two native Firefox methods for each of my goals
(propagating settings and also add-ons).
Kaply also recently released CCK2, which replaces the CCK I found was no longer
available (from my original post). I understand CCK2 to be an add-on that
provides a front-end for the methods described in his articles like the ones
above.
John,
Glad you got *some* use out of what I said, even though I misunderstood the
purpose(s) of your question. I have very little experience with different
Firefox profiles under the same username, only having done it once. I have a
bit more experience with creating different user accounts on the same machine -
which, if I understand this time what you are trying to accomplish, is the
route I would take.
I set up a "base" user account with the apps that all users would have in
common, including Firefox. I exported the "base" bookmarks from that and
imported the bookmarks into each of the user's Firefoxes. I could have done
something similar with the addons (xpi files) too, but I just re-downloaded
them for each user. I then added user-specific bookmarks (based on sex and age)
to the base bookmarks for each.
Eric
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