From: frgrahl@gmx.net   
      
   alexyu wrote:   
   > Don Vito Martinelli wrote, on 13 Jul 2025 14:23:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Since before 2020, I've been running SM 2.49.5 and FF ESR 52.9 in a   
   > WinXP/Win7x32/Win7x64) multi-boot system, using the same XUL extensions and   
   > basic profile files, and copying 'places', cookies, logins, etc. from one to   
   > the other SM to FF) to keep them all in sync, with the SM & FF Profiles in   
   > special root directories in W7, used by both OS's, and it had been working   
   fine.   
   >   
   > Frank (frg) also warned me of possible problems, but there have been none,   
   > even after I added the W7x64, so it seems that the internal adjustments (by   
   > SM/FF & Win) are able to automatically make any needed adjustments when using   
   > the Profiles in different OS's.  I don't use Linux (yet?), but I suspect   
   that,   
   > in that case, the differences might create problems, since there is no   
   > 'overseer' over Win & Linux...   
   >   
   > Of course, if I ever decide to upgrade SM to 2.53 and/or FF to the latest   
   > versions, they would be inherently incompatible, and this setup would no   
   > longer work; but, since my main interest here is SM for mail/news, and SM   
   2.49   
   > and FF 52 as 'alternate browsers' (to MS Edge, which is locked to v.104 due   
   to   
   > W7, but handles most sites which the old SM/FF cannot), that isn't on the   
   near   
   > horizon.   
   >   
      
   content prefs (download paths) and ics calendar files are among the   
   problematic ones. If you don't run mail oder use Lightning you might not   
   notice. Some extensions are also problematics. In any case you are on your own   
   with problems.   
      
   FRG   
      
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