Gemal's Psyched Blog - Comments on Create Mozilla Profile without .slt directory

By alanjstr

Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:04:14 +0100

Neat trick, definitely a network admin thing.

By Felix Miata

Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:03:17 +0100

It does work. Unfortunately, it doesn't cover getting a 4.x profile migrated without salting.

By Angus S-F

Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:37:36 +0100

Doesn't work for MozillaFirebird, either 0.6.1 or 0.7 -- a $RANDOM.slt directory appears under the specified path (e.g. c:\private\mail\$RANDOM.SLT ...

By Henrik Gemal

Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:02:13 +0100

It works fine for me both under Mozilla Firebird 0.6 and 0.7. Are you sure you followed the directions 100%?

By Angus S-F

Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:17:08 +0100

Worked this time, after I copied your three lines into a batch file and edited them. Must have skipped a step or missed something before ....

Thanks!

By Brandon

Sat, 22 Nov 2003 12:11:55 +0100

Would this also work the same way for Linux... I'm trying to find a way to, essentially, share a directory between Mozilla Mail for windows... and Mozilla Mail for Linux...

By Scott

Tue, 25 Nov 2003 06:46:11 +0100

yes it does work on Linux.
mkdir /home/moz/test
cd /home/moz/test
touch prefs.js

then start mozilla
./mozilla -CreateProfile "test /home/moz"

and then you just get back to a prompt. then start mozilla regular:
./mozilla
and "test will be selectable as a profile.

this could be hacked into a shell script that is poor mas roaming...(download;launch;upload on exit;delete local profile) but then there's the cross platform issue yet, and plugin/helpers that are on one machine and not another...

By Armand

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:23:35 +0100

Works great for Netscape 7 - I don't know why this isn't listed in more places! It took me forever to find... and meanwhile I've got about a thousand user accounts that need their proxy server configured.

By Angus S-F

Thu, 10 Jun 2004 01:38:07 +0100

Biggest problem with Firefox using this trick is that you have to have PowerUser or greater rights to the Win2k/XP machine -- if you have just User rights, you can't create the Phoenix/Firefox directory under %appdata% and so you can't run FireFox from a USB stick or a shared network location.

By Gene Poole

Sun, 05 Dec 2004 03:39:56 +0100

Can this be done on a network drive (NFS mount and Samba share) and used between machines running Linux, eComStation, and Windows98 all using the Mozilla mail client or Thunderbird?

By Dragonfish

Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:39:50 +0100

Wow.. spent an hour trying to work out how to do this. Thankyou so much for posting. There must be a lot of people who need this info. Any chance of writing to mozilla webmaster to get it posted under FAQ section there ?

I think with Linux/Win 98 creating a new profile in Linux and symbolic linking to the Win 98 "real profile" essential files (mail/bookmarks) is the best answer but this solves everything else.

By Jon Perez

Sat, 26 Feb 2005 13:04:18 +0100

Thank you for this hack. Now if only the Mozilla developers wise up and make it unnecesssary one day.

By piyt

Wed, 20 May 2009 09:12:51 +0100

this mozilla firefox 3.1 beta 2 - http://file.sh/firefox+3.1+torrent.html it�s runing to slow on my computer and how do you activate private browsing yo didn�t said nothing about that