Is there a problem sharing Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 profiles?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/1 Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>:
> On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 22:43 -0500, Young wrote:
>> Is anyone successfully using a shared profile between Firefox 2 and 3?
>
> I have switched between the two numerous times, without issues. IIRC,
> the compatibility of profiles was also mentioned (somewhere "official")
> as a reason for having FF3 Beta 5 in 8.04 when it was released.
>
> However, I don't use extensions much, and when 8.04 was released there
> _were some people on the list who claimed compatibility issues. I don't
> think that anyone was every _really sure, though.
>

There are extensions issues, and not all FX3 extensions work in FX2.
Vimperator, for instance.

Dotan Cohen

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