Re: Seamonkey profile

Dave Yeo wrote:
> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>> Dave Yeo wrote:
>>> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Her WinX have screwed up the FAT32 driveletter from r: (the same as in
>>>> os2) to O:, but in the new box the FAT32 volume will have the same
>>>> driveletter R: on both sides - will do a clean install of win7 32bit on
>>>> that box on a C: primary partition and WSeB on another C: partition and
>>>> a flavour of DOS on a C: partition.
>>>>
>>>> She thinks that the simplest way to place the new SMPmW profile 
>>>> would be
>>>> to put it in a subdirectory to R:\SEAMONKEY and a new FF profile on
>>>> R:\FIREFOX. But that begs the question, must the SET
>>>> MOZILLA_HOME=y:\mozilla.org\mozilla be changed or can it be as it is
>>>> now?
>>>
>>> Mozilla will try to use the SET MOZILLA_HOME environmental location
>>> first, and then fall back to the program directories (latest OS/2
>>> versions will first fall back to whatever is in SET HOME). I'd
>>> recommend using SET MOZILLA_HOME as having the profile in the program
>>> directory makes updating hard and will also make migrating to SM v2+
>>> hard.
>>>
>>
>> So how should the new settings for SET_MOZILLA_HOME be set
>> if She creates an r:\mozilla.org\mozilla catalog on r:, and under that a
>> catalog named Profiles and under that the new profile names for SMpMw118
>> and Firefox? Remember that the programs itself will live in the
>> y:\mozilla.org\mozilla\ dir. And btw, She kicks off SMPmW118 and
>> Firefox-10.0.12 and Firefox-17.0.11esr and one of the .cmd files She
>> uses to kick off 17.0esr look like this:
> 
> SET MOZILLA_HOME=r:\mozilla.org\mozilla\Profiles You will end up with a 
> directory Mozilla under that with Firefox, SeaMonkey (and Profiles for 
> SM 1.x) directories for their profiles. Might be simpler to have
> SET MOZILLA_HOME=r:\mozilla.org.
>>
>> <$quote>
>>
>> setlocal
>> set BEGINLIBPATH=n:\mozilla.org\mozilla\firefox-17.0.11esr
>> set LIBPATHSTRICT=T
>> set MOZILLA_PLUGIN_PATH=n:\mozilla.org\mozilla\plugins
>> cdd n:\mozilla.org\mozilla\firefox-17.0.11esr
>> firefox.exe -P "default" -no_remote
>> endlocal
>>
>> </quote>
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>>> Eventually you should consider upgrading SeaMonkey and Firefox. Not
>>>>> easy getting all the dependencies unless you use YUM/RPM or better,
>>>>> the Arca Noae Package Manager (ANPM), free download.
>>>>>

She can access the ArcaNoae site through nftp/2, but in what catalog 
under the /pub catalog does this utility live? Her browers misbehaves, 
crashing as often as not, that's why She tries to use the NFTP/2 ftp 
client instead as THIS program doesn't crash at all :-)


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