Mac wrote:
snip
So I'll take your advice about this and give it a go with nfs. If that
doesn't work, I think I'll probably adopt the solution of running FF3
from a profile on a jump drive
I said I update this thread. I'm afraid I didn't try nfs, as the
uncertainty of success put me off;
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 06:10:17PM +0100, Mac wrote:
Robert McWilliam wrote:
Do you get any error messages if you run firefox from a terminal?
None: it runs with no errors...
Helpful. I've had a quick look for how to get more debug output from
firefox and it looks like it needs
Dont know anything about how FF3 bookmarks systems but seems you could
mount the shared network drive using fstab, and then point FF3 to the
path which would now appear local to FF3 or create a symbolic link from
the network shark bookmarks to the location FF3 expects the files to be.
Robert McWilliam wrote:
Do you get any error messages if you run firefox from a terminal?
None: it runs with no errors...
I think this might be the same problem with sqlite on network drives
that you had attempting a similar thing with liferea, as firefox moved
from using an html file to a
Oliver Marks wrote:
Dont know anything about how FF3 bookmarks systems but seems you could
mount the shared network drive using fstab, and then point FF3 to the
path which would now appear local to FF3 or create a symbolic link from
the network shark bookmarks to the location FF3 expects the
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:01:08PM +0100, Mac wrote:
I can run FF3 (including adding and removing bookmarks) perfectly with
the profile on a jump drive (msdos format); but I can't get a networked
profile to handle bookmarks. (Network drive is FAT32 accessed via
Samba; Thunderbird profile
Michael G Fletcher wrote:
I've been experimenting with a single 8.04 machine running FF3.
Bookmarks work properly if the profile is on the machine itself. When I
move the profile to the network drive, FF3 appears to run OK, but I
cannot add, delete or organise bookmarks - which rather
LeeGroups wrote:
Why not just use FoxMarks (an FF plugin that stores bookmarks), that way
you have a backup too..
I'm not keen on data-mining by bailees. (See FoxMarks privacy policy.)
Mac
Bailees?
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LeeGroups wrote:
Bailees?
English legal term: people to whom you entrust your possessions for
safe keeping. Like, say, a pawnbroker, who isn't allowed to damage your
box of stuff, but can examine it, think about what it contains, and make
use of what he learns thereby for his own
Friends I'd be glad of any thoughts you can offer on this, as I've
run out of ideas...
I currently use Ubuntu 7.10 on two or three machines, each with Firefox
2, which all use the same bookmarks stored on a FAT32 network drive.
I plan to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 + Firefox 3, and want all my
I've been experimenting with a single 8.04 machine running FF3.
Bookmarks work properly if the profile is on the machine itself. When I
move the profile to the network drive, FF3 appears to run OK, but I
cannot add, delete or organise bookmarks - which rather defeats the
whole object!
Michael G Fletcher wrote:
This may be obvious and you covered it already, but does the machine running
FF3 have write permission to where the bookmarks are stored on the network?
Michael These same machines use a networked Thunderbird profile, and
with that I never needed to do anything other
Mac wrote:
Michael G Fletcher wrote:
This may be obvious and you covered it already, but does the machine running
FF3 have write permission to where the bookmarks are stored on the network?
snip ...I wasn't expecting a
problem with write permissions for FF3 on the FAT32 network drive. But
I've been experimenting with a single 8.04 machine running FF3.
Bookmarks work properly if the profile is on the machine itself.
When I
move the profile to the network drive, FF3 appears to run OK, but I
cannot add, delete or organise bookmarks - which rather defeats
LeeGroups wrote:
Why not just use FoxMarks (an FF plugin that stores bookmarks), that way
you have a backup too..
I'm not keen on data-mining by bailees. (See FoxMarks privacy policy.)
Mac
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