I use both Commercial/Netscape 6.1 and Mozilla builds daily, and don't
have any problems with profile switching. Can you describe the problems
you've been having? One thing to keep in mind, is that Netscape
releases usually come after a Milestone, off the Milestone branch. So
you're going to encounter the same type of problems that you would see
when making a profile in say .8.1 then trying to use it in .9. There
shouldn't be any problems with that, or with using that profile with the
beta, but in reality, there are a few. Let me know what they are, and
i'll try and get bugs filed on those that I can reproduce.
jason
Orrin Edenfield wrote:
> Canasta wrote:
>
>> Some attention needs to be paid to the way Netscape and Mozilla builds
>> work with profiles created in one another. Presently, neither build
>> works very well with each other's profiles, and there's too much
>> manual manipulation required of the end user, not to mention too much
>> voodoo guesswork about what is supposed to work right.
>>
>> I propose that Mozilla and Netscape profiles be entirely separated.
>> Neither should use profile files intended for the other.
>>
>> That said, how can we make this convenient for the end user?
>>
>> 1. Mirror Mozilla and Netscape profiles. Each time a build is run, it
>> checks for new or updated profiles of the other, and builds or updates
>> its' own versions of them transparently to the end user, making any
>> modifications necessary to produce profiles native to the respective
>> build
>>
>> 2. Build mirroring functionality into the Profile Migrator
>>
>> 3. Do no profile mirroring whatsoever; treat profiles in different
>> builds as totally separate.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> P.S.: Something also needs to be done to eliminate the need to trash
>> profiles between Mozilla builds, even "milestones," which is necessary
>> to avoid lots of crashes. Is there some log of changes made to default
>> profiles in Mozilla that can be leveraged to build some kind of super
>> Profile Migrator?
>>
>>
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>
> I agree. Something would be handy to differenciate between Netscape 6.x
>
> based profiles and Mozilla-based profiles. And make it so each one can
> see most of the same files, so you can possibly use Netscape 6.x and
> Mozilla with the same profile, just build in some kind of
> Profile-Protection, that will save important stuff or something, so it
> can be backed up.
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