Re: Firefox: Copying profiles
marc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Firefox profile that I'd like to make available to another
> user, but I'm struggling to complete this basic requirement
> successfully.
>
> The way I've gone about this is to start by creating a new profile via:
> # firefox -profilemanager
>
> 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 *
>
> When I use
> # firefox -profilemanager
> to use the new profile, Firefox loads, but the display is corrupt. The
> console displays twenty or so error messages similar to:
> *** Failed to load overlay chrome://
>
Just to clairfy, this is another Firefox user using Firefox on your user
account, so their profile would also be in your home directory, correct?
I don't think that will matter but anyhow...
You didn't mention the profiles.ini or pluginrec.dat files (which are
right above any profile directories in ~/.mozilla/firefox). If you
copied this profile completely to another user account on your system
then it sounds like those didn't go with it. I don't know much about
either but I do know the the profiles.ini file tells Firefox which
profile to lanuch by default and that might be contributing to your problem.
Or I could be completely wrong. ;-)
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