Right now, Netscape 4.61, IBM Web Browser, and Mozilla are present on 
my system (OS/2 v4.51), and the latter two exhibit the same bookmarks 
file. 
 
Web Browser and Mozilla were installed in that order. That explains 
why the bookmarks file is physically present in the \OS2WEB directory 
(i.e. Web Browser) but not in the Mozilla directory. Evidently, 
Mozilla knew enough to look for the file in the directory of the 
earlier version, and knows enough to refer to it there, so that the 
two stay synchronized. (That is what drew my attention to the 
question: I added a bookmark in Mozilla, and then noticed it was 
present in the WB bookmarks file as well.)
 
I won't keep both on the system forever, and the chances are good that
it is IBM Web Browser that will be deleted, so that I would have to 
copy over the file (and the profile) to the Mozilla directory 
structure. 
I have not found any instruction about exactly *where* to put it. 
Although the WB directory has a subdirectory for the only profile I 
have defined, and the bookmarks are in it, the Mozilla directory does 
not. 
 
How to handle the bookmarks and profile on the fateful day that I 
remove WB from the system, so I don't have to start from scratch to 
build a new one?
 
The Mozilla directory structure includes the following:
 
2001/04/21  20:49:18  5829      
D:\Mozilla\bin\defaults\profile\US\bookmarks.html
2001/04/21  20:49:18  5829      
D:\Mozilla\bin\defaults\profile\bookmarks.html
 
Note that these files have dates in April, whereas I installed both 
Web Browser and Mozilla only in October; they are two copies of 
pointers to Mozilla-specific pages. I didn't put them there, Mozilla 
did, although why two copies, and what good they do if the user has 
not been apprised of them are two mysteries.
 
Mozilla doesn't have a randomly-named directory, but Web Browser does.
I hesitate to use the same gibberish for a filename in the Mozilla 
directory structure. This thing scares me.
 
-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

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