From: alexyu@postpro.net   
      
   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.   
      
   --   
   Best,   
      
   s) alexyu   
      
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