Re: Seamonkey profile

Dave Yeo <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Oct 2017 08:09:33 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.os2
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Christer Jacobsson wrote:
> Dave Yeo wrote:
>> On 09/30/17 11:00 PM, Dave Yeo wrote:
>>>> 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
>>
>> Tested, set MOZILLA_HOME=H:\ and ran Firefox and SeaMonkey.
>> Under the root, 3 subdirectories, Extensions, Firefox and SeaMonkey.
>> Extensions is empty, meant for extensions installed for all profiles I
>> think.
>> Firefox and SeaMonkey have the usual structure, profiles directory
>> then profile
>> Dave
>>
>>
>
> OK, then She can create the structure as shown above, but what will
> happen when She upgrades SMpMW118 to SM 2.1?

Good question. It has been so long since I used the migrator that I 
can't remember if you have a choice where the old profile lives.
You're probably going to have to experiment and possibly manually migrate.
Dave