Re: Seamonkey profile

On 09/30/17 10:39 PM, Christer Jacobsson wrote:
> Dave Yeo wrote:
>> Peter Brown wrote:
>>> Hi Christer
>>>
>
> As Salaam Aleikum!
>
> Sorry for resending this msg, but She haven't gotten any answer on it.
>
>>> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>>>> Dave Yeo wrote:
>>>>> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> She looked into the Readme.txt for SMPmW118 and came across an
>>>>>> example
>>>>>> how to divorce the profile data from the current y:\mozilla.org...
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> that was to set the mozilla_home to say
>>>>>> SET MOZILLA_HOME=R:\data
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This would result, according to the readme.txt that the profiles
>>>>>> would
>>>>>> be stored in r:\data\mozilla\profiles and under that the profiles
>>>>>> themselves. One guy gave Her a tip to get rid of that pesky
>>>>>> xxxxxxxx.slt
>>>>>> dir and that was to place a prefs.js containing a couple of lines os
>>>>>> alphabet soup, then that xxxxxxxx.slt dir wouldn't be created at all,
>>>>>> making the profile path much cleaner :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, that is correct about how SET MOZILLA_HOME works, including SM
>>>>> 2.x going under SeaMonkey. Don't know about the prefs.js trick.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What would the differences be if She uses your first example or your
>>>>>> second suggestion?
>>>>>
>>>>> Shallower directories with the second example, though it is all
>>>>> personal preference
>>>>> Dave
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If She uses your example, i.e. setting SET MOZILLA_HOME=R:\mozilla.org,
>>>
>>>
>>> I would shorten that to SET MOZILLA_HOME=R: as the Mozilla app will then
>>> create a directory structure R:\Mozilla\Profiles on first startup.
>>
>> No, only Firefox and SeaMonkey use Mozilla.
>> I have SET MOZILLA_HOME=Z:\Mozprofiles and under that
>> Downloads (created by SM IIRC)
>> Moonchild Productions (Where Palemoon put its profile)
>> Mozilla
>> Thunderbird
>>
>> and under Mozilla
>> Extensions (unused, I believe it for Firefox and universally installed
>> extensions)
>> Firefox
>> Profiles (SM 1.x)
>> SeaMonkey (SM 2.x)
>>
>> Much better to put these under a common subdirectory.
>>
>
> Yes, She wants the flattest possible dir trees for the SM and FF
> profiles, for example:
>
> R:\MOZILLA and under that
> PROFILES\SEAMONKEY\CHRISTER (The new profile(S)for SM should go under
> PROFILES\SEAMONKEY\<other profile)>
> PROFILES\FIREFOX\CHRISTER (The new profile(s) should go under
> PROFILES\FIREFOX\<new profile>.
>
> Is this possible and how should the new SET MOZILLA_HOME be set?

I don't know if it is possible. You'd need to set MOZILLA_HOME=R:\ and 
test. It _should_ work but I've seen Firefox have problems downloading 
to the root of drives.
If I remember, I may test later
Dave