firefox share profile in freebsd and windows!

[Danny Howard]

Ean Kingston wrote:

>At the worst, you could export your bookmarks from one and import them
>into the other. Then you would just have to go through the preferences and
>make sure the settings are the same otherwise.
>  
>
I have been using Amazon's a9.com which has a browser bar for Firefox 
that facilitates storing bookmarks on a9.com.  This way, I can do 
bookmarks on my FreeBSD Firefox, and pull them up on my Windows Firefox, 
or any computer if I visit their site.  There are probably other "server 
side bookmarks" services out there.  The a9 makes it a little nicer with 
the toolbar thingus, plus it wraps around Google's search engine, 
Amazon's products search engine, and Amazon.com will give you a modest 
discount for helping test out their wonky new feature. (The bookmark 
management is a little weird, because it is implemented as a web interface.)

As far as duplicating profiles, I'm with Ean in figuring that trying to 
get the profiles to work on two utterly different platforms sounds like 
more trouble than it would likely be worth.  I know that in the old days 
the Netscape folks were keen on a project to store metadata in an LDAP 
server ... perhaps the Mozilla foundation has some similar fetish, but 
you would be better off asking the Mozilla folks, who are all about 
cross-platform magic.

-danny