On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:00:30, Javier Pedemonte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
opined:

> Mozilla and IBM Web Browser (IWB) will both look for the profile 
> directory wherever the environment variable MOZILLA_HOME is set.  Since 
> you installed IWB first, this set MOZILLA_HOME in your config.sys.  In 
> your case, it probably points to the mozilla directory in your os2web dir.  
> 
> Later, when you installed Mozilla, it used the already created profile 
> found at MOZILLA_HOME.  So your Mozilla and IWB actually share 
> everything (prefs, bookmarks, mail/news, etc).

Aha!! Very logical and simple. Thank you.

> I forget if you can actually move the whole profile directories to 
> another location.  I think there were some issues involved (like some 
> files hardcoded the path).  But you can try it if you want.  Just set 
> MOZILLA_HOME to point to the new path.  If this doesn't work, you can 
> set MOZILLA_HOME to a new location, start Mozilla or IWB in profile 
> manager, create a new profile, and manually copy your bookmarks file 
> from your old profile to the new one.

Perhaps the easiest way would be to reinstall Mozilla OVER the 
existing Web Browser?

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

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