setting up common location for mozilla bookmarks and email

deadpoint deadpoint at adelphia.net
Thu May 23 17:20:28 EDT 2002


netscape use to have support for roaming profiles, where it would store 
all your preferences in an LDAP server. the support for this existed in 
version 4.x of the browser but i'm not sure about netscape 6x or 
mozilla. if it's there it isn't very apparent.

Robert Dege wrote:

>Actually, Mozilla installs ts preferences into a .mozilla folder.  Unless
>it detects the existence of a .netscape folder, then it will use that.
>
>There are 2 problems I see with sharing.  One, I don't know if Mozilla for
>Windows uses the same config layout as Linux (though logically it would
>seem sane).  Two, 7bit character encoding vs. 8-bit encoding.  aka,
>Windows using the extra bit for carraige returns might make Mozilla think
>the preferences (or email files for that matter) are corrupt.
>
>Just some food for thought
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>-Rob
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>>eeww.. I don't know if that possible. Linux looks in .netscape in your
>>home dir. I don't know if you can change it. As for email, can you do
>>IMAP?
>>
>>On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 15:34, umar wrote:
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>>>hi there,
>>>
>>>can someone guide me on how to set up the bookmarks of
>>>mozilla in such a way that both windows and linux
>>>versions of mozilla can access same bookmarks
>>>(obviously they would store somewhere in windows
>>>partition but dont know exactly where and how). Also,
>>>I would like to do same for emails so that I can
>>>access my email account no matter which OS I am
>>>running.
>>>
>>>Umar
>>>
>>>__________________________________________________
>>>Do You Yahoo!?
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>>>
>>>--
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>>>      
>>>
>>--
>>-------------------------------------------
>>Justin Bennett
>>Red Hat Certified Engineer
>>Network Administrator
>>Dynabrade Inc.
>>8989 Sheridan Dr
>>Clarence, NY 14031
>>716-631-0100 ext 215
>>
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>Dege
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>So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny
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