Re: Firefox: Copying profiles

[marc <gmane@auxbuss.com>]

[KS] said...
> marc wrote:
> > 
> > Next, I move the newly created ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxx.newprofile out 
> > of the way and copy the required source xxxxxx.existingprofile to 
> > ~/.mozilla/firefox/, then rename the newly copied folder to 
> > xxxxxx.newprofile. Finally, I chown -R owner:group *
> > 
> > 
> 
> I would just create a new profile for the user, go into the profile
> folder, copy only those files that are needed from the "required
> profile" and start Firefox.

Yup, but that doesn't work.

> The most important file would be the bookmarks.html.

Actually it isn't in this case.

> You can also copy
> other files which may contain the username and passwords if the user
> stored any. For details profile files, read the knowledge base at
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder

Yes, but this is incomplete.

Perhaps it just can't be done. Very odd.

-- 
Best,
Marc