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Date:	Thu, 6 Dec 2007 13:21:30 -0800
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Setting up Mozilla products

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It has been suggested that I might post this. Before I do that how
about we beat up on it a bit. What is missing or confusing?

Ray

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The Mozilla products change a lot. Not all releases perform as
intended. If you have a functioning version, and you install the new
release over it, and the new one doesn't work, you are out of business
until you recreate the previous that did work.

However, if you keep profiles, plugins, mail, news and bookmarks
separate from the programs, and all DLLs in OS2\DLL, all you have to do
to try a new version is unzip it and run the executable. If it seems to
work then rename the directory to something meaningful for that product
and version. Then if you wish, create a run object for it. When you
finally decide it is OK, delete the previous version's tree.

Config.sys should have:
SET MOZILLA_HOME=X:\MOZPROFILES
SET MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=X:\MOZPROFILES\PLUGINS
NO OTHER references to Mozilla products.

When I was chasing problems I had about twenty versions of SM on a HDD
and could run any one of them with the same profiles, plugins,
bookmarks, mail and news.

You need one profile per product; Moz\SM, FF, TB,,,. I had to make a
new profile to run SM 2x. But it was so broken in general that maybe no
observations are relevant.

If you don't want the profile several layers down in a cryptic
directory, try this. When creating the profile, give it a name eg
PROFILE1, and for directory location select X:\MOZPROFILES. That will
create a profile a couple layers under X:\MOZPROFILES\PROFILE1. Go to
the profile directory that was created, move the contents, close, open,
delete PROFILE1, and again create PROFILE1 at X:\MOZPROFILES. Now that
there is already a profile there - the one you moved - it will leave it
there and not create the one lower down.

Mail and news can be shared between all mail and news clients including
cross platform. Go to Mail and Newsgroup account settings and point to
the mail directory. When using the files with a different client, the
MSF files may get recreated and some of the folder sorting may be lost.

A single Bookmarks file can be shared by all browsers including cross
platform. Put the file in a neutral location, go to Bookmarks\Manage
Bookmarks\File\Open Bookmarks file, go to where you parked the file,
select it.

All programs can use a single CACHE directory. Go to
Browser\Edit\Preferences\Advanced\Cache\Select Folder.

The password file is of the form 12345678.s Give it a name that is
meaningful to you. I do not know that it has to be numbers. Edit the
prefs.js of all the profiles\machines that will be using it to show the
same name. Create CMD files to copy passwords, cookies and address book
files between profiles\machines.

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