On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 03:53:28PM +1000, bill wrote: > My method, which I've just worked out again as I forgot what I'd done > previously) when I want to set up Firefox and Thundrbird in a new > install, is to copy the old installs /home/xxx/.mozilla ( or > /home/xxxx/.mozilla-thunderbird) to the /home/xxxx/ of the new > install BEFORE running either Firefox or Thunderbird. > > I then run ( in a terminal) sudo firefox-x.x ( ie firefox-3.5) > -profilemanager ( or sudo thunderbird -profilemanager), which finds > the copied user profile. Just accept it and then select "run" and it > will set up everything and even download and install updated plugins > etc. > > > Hope this helps - your Iceape should be included in all of this > automatically I imagine.
Thanks. I did that but keep getting Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) nslProfileInternal.currentProfile .. when trying to open either of my two old profiles. However I can set up a new profile. The point of the exercise being to transfer bookmarks, it does not serve any purpose. Googling by the error msg, I gather the problem lies in permissions. I have used a working mozilla profile as a model, but still keep getting the msg. Can you see any perms errors in the list below ? Adam. [email protected] .mozilla-t1: total 84 drwxr-x--- 10 adam adam 4096 2009-08-30 13:47 . drwxr-xr-x 58 adam adam 4096 2009-08-30 18:02 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 3340 2009-08-30 18:02 appreg drwx------ 4 adam adam 4096 2009-08-30 12:45 default drwx------ 4 adam adam 4096 2009-08-30 12:47 Felix drwx------ 6 adam adam 4096 2009-08-30 15:17 firefox drwx------ 3 adam adam 4096 2009-08-30 12:47 iceowl drwx------ 2 adam adam 4096 2009-08-30 12:47 .mozconfig-thunderbird drwx------ 8 adam adam 4096 2009-08-30 12:54 .mozilla -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 16682 2009-08-30 12:47 mozver.dat -rw------- 1 adam adam 18429 2009-08-30 18:01 pluginreg.dat drwxr-xr-x 2 adam adam 4096 2009-08-30 12:47 plugins drwx------ 4 adam adam 4096 2009-08-30 18:00 T-2 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
