From: hyperspace.flyover@vogon.gov.invalid   
      
   frg wrote:   
   > 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   
   >   
   >   
      
   When you say "if you don't run mail", does that include Newsgroups?   
      
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