marc wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Firefox profile that I'd like to make available to another > user, but I'm struggling to complete this basic requirement > successfully. > > The way I've gone about this is to start by creating a new profile via: > # firefox -profilemanager > > Next, I move the newly created ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxx.newprofile out > of the way and copy the required source xxxxxx.existingprofile to > ~/.mozilla/firefox/, then rename the newly copied folder to > xxxxxx.newprofile. Finally, I chown -R owner:group * > > When I use > # firefox -profilemanager > to use the new profile, Firefox loads, but the display is corrupt. The > console displays twenty or so error messages similar to: > *** Failed to load overlay chrome:// >
Just to clairfy, this is another Firefox user using Firefox on your user account, so their profile would also be in your home directory, correct? I don't think that will matter but anyhow... You didn't mention the profiles.ini or pluginrec.dat files (which are right above any profile directories in ~/.mozilla/firefox). If you copied this profile completely to another user account on your system then it sounds like those didn't go with it. I don't know much about either but I do know the the profiles.ini file tells Firefox which profile to lanuch by default and that might be contributing to your problem. Or I could be completely wrong. ;-) -- Scott www.angrykeyboarder.com © 2005 angrykeyboarder & Elmer Fudd. All Wights Wesewved
