firefox profile ubuntu->windows, as well as windows->ubuntu

Bret Busby bret at busby.net
Wed Sep 4 18:06:02 UTC 2024


On 5/9/24 00:41, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 4/9/24 22:09, bruce wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Looking over the net, Interested in copying firefox profile from
>> ubuntu to windows.
>>
>> At the same time, I'd be interested in doing the reverse as well.
>>
>> thoughts/comments
>>
> Depending on what add-ons/plugins, you use with Firefox on Ubuntu, from 
> what my wife has told me (she uses MS Windows, for which, she is a 
> systems developer), the add-ons/plugins are not available for Firefox 
> for Windows.
> 
> So if you really want to run Firefox on Windows, you would need to 
> accept the loss of add-ons/plugins functionality, that is available for 
> Firefox on Linux.
> 
> I would not bother trying to run Firefox on Windows (but, then, I would 
> not bother trying to run MS Windows - I abandoned it as unusable, when 
> they imposed Windows 8 - because I found MS Windows 8 to be designed to 
> be obstructive).
> 
> ..
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> (UTC+0800)
> ..............
> 
> 
It also occurred to me, after having posted my response above, that, 
posting your query to the Firefox users mailing list (after subscribing 
to it), would probably have been more appropriate than posting your 
query to this  list...

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..............





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