User profiles

[Betti Ann & Preston Smith]

Thank you Art and others who responded.

These URLs give excellent instructions on how to manage profiles - 
http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile and 
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

Under Kubuntu, I noticed if I have one of these applications running and 
try to start a second instance of it, the profile manager would appear. 
   I then 'created' a new profile and pointed it to the appropriate 
*.default profile sub directory in XP.  Works like a charm

Guess there are many ways to do each task

Thanks again

Now I have to try to find a way to install my new HP 2610 Multi-purpose 
printer, scanner, fax, and copier.  Onward!  Ever upwards!

Preston

Art Alexion said the following on 26/10/05 04:18 PM:
> I can think of two (alternative) things to try.
> 
>   1. At the file system level on the Linux system, create a symbolic
>      link to the current profile directory on the fat32 partition.      
> Note the name of the default profile directory on the Linux
>      installation.  Delete (or for safety as this is an experiment,
>      rename) the default profile directory on the Linux system.  Rename
>      the symbolic link as the original name of the default profile
>      directory.  Never tried this, but it should redirect the calls to
>      the default Linux profiles to the default win32 profiles.
>   2. At the configuration level.  Install the about:config extensions
>      as needed to Firefox and Thunderbird.  Change the profile
>      directories as needed.
> 
>