From: hyperspace.flyover@vogon.gov.invalid   
      
   Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 14/07/2025 3:23 am, Don Vito Martinelli wrote:   
   >> Rather amusingly, I discovered a document from 18 years ago detailing   
   >> how to do this:   
   >> https://sillydog.org/netscape/kb/linuxwindows.html   
   >>   
   >> Nowadays Frank (FRG) has stated repeatedly here that this is a very   
   >> dangerous thing to do, and that various fields in the profile are   
   >> incompatible between the two operating systems.   
   >> I don't know about abook.mab, but bookmarks.html ceased to be relevant   
   >> many years ago.   
   >>   
   >> SillyDog.org dates back over 20 years and most of the links in the   
   >> various pages there are broken, this even includes many of the   
   >> internal ones.   
   >   
   > Don, over the years I have been told several time by FRG that I was   
   > courting failure if I did share the one SeaMonkey profile across Win7   
   > and Linux.   
   >   
   > That Laptop now has other problems so I am using this Win11 Desktop ....   
   > and I have yet to install any Linux on it ..... but I will.   
   >   
   > Having looked at the Laptops Profile.ini (I think was the file), it   
   > looked a bit unusual as some of the locations it refered to were of the   
   > format "E:\......." while others were of the Linux format "Home/ ...."   
   > (Note the slashes being backwards.) ... so I could see the possibility   
   > of Computer Confusion.   
   >   
   > I accept FRG trying to warn me, help me out .... but so far so good!   
   >   
   > WRT Step 4 in your reference, I just thought it might be simpler to   
   > install SeaMonkey on Linux normally including making a Profile on Linux   
   > .... then, in SeaMonkey, select Tools -> Switch Profiles --> Manage   
   > Profiles -> Create Profile and have it pointing to the Windows Profile.   
   >   
   > (Might have to try this when I get arround to installing Linux on this   
   > Desktop.)   
      
   My assumption is that changes in the profile mean that sharing is more   
   dangerous than it used to be, but FRG is one of the people who knows   
   best and I've taken his word for this for years.   
   Some of the fields in the profile are paths, they are formatted   
   differently across the two operating systems.   
      
   If I really wanted to share (I don't) then I'd start by looking how to   
   share Firefox profiles, given that any OS-mandated incompatibilities   
   will have originated there.  Thunderbird should be less of a problem.   
      
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