Re: Firefox: Copying profiles

[marc <gmane@auxbuss.com>]

Scott said...
> 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?

Nope. In essence, what I want is a generic "install" that I can use for 
any/all users. So, the minimum steps would be: adduser, copy Firefox 
stuff, fire up Firefox.
 
> 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.

Indeed, that's not the problem.

-- 
Best,
Marc