Comments on: CyberNotes: Share a Firefox Profile Between Ubuntu and Windows

By: pete

pete — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:15:14 +0000

Hey Bob,

I have the same problem as you. Can you tell me how to mount the xp drive?

Kind Regards
Pete

By: Madiha M.K

Madiha M.K — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:39:25 +0000

THIS IS AWESOME!! I got my windows profile and ADD ONS and EVERYTHING on my linux ubuntu now!! THANK YOU **SOOO** MUCH!
Even sxipper, speed dial and everything work!

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By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:35:24 +0000

lb, It has to make sure it disables all of the extensions that will not work on one or the other operating systems.

By: lb

lb — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:47:41 +0000

I have come to use my FF3 profile on Windows XP and Ubuntu (8.04).
There are some inconveniences though…
Whenever I start up FF in Ubuntu after having run it on Windows, it says that there probably is another instance running which I ought to shut down. I resolve this by deleting the lock object that maybe Windows has kindly left behind.
But then (in both WIndows and Ubuntu) FF behaves like it has just been upgraded, checking every addon for available updates instead of just booting up. How can I fix these two problems?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:00:47 +0000

Glad you got it all working great now Bob!

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:26:17 +0000

Hi Ryan,
My son, who first introduced me to Linux, just resolved my problem.
My xp drive was not mounted. It is now mounted permanently and everything
is working fine.
Regards
Bob

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:10:32 +0000

Hi Ryan,
Sorry to bother you again, but I have a new problem!

I was able to complete the process for both Firefox and Thunderbird. I then rebooted in windows and everything was working fine, I had even added some bookmarks and folders while I was in Ubuntu and the changes showed up in xp.
But when I tried to start both programs in Ubuntu, I was told that the programs where already running. I can start them using the default user but not under the new user.
I have gone back to windows, restarted both applications with no problem. I then made certain that both programs where closed, did a complete shutdown and rebooted
in Ubuntu with the same result,i.e. “Firefox/Thunderbird is already running”. And they still both work under the default user.
Do you have any idea why this is happening.
Thanks
Bob
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By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:07:14 +0000

Problem solved!
Thanks Ryan

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:24:25 +0000

Bob wrote:

When I enter firefox -profilemanager in the terminal, instead of opening up the firefox Choose User Profile Box, it opens the firefox program. How can I get to the profile manager?

Sounds like you already have Firefox open when trying to do that? Try closing all instances of Firefox.