[geeks] Replacement MacBook question

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Thu Sep 11 06:23:32 CDT 2008


Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:58:38PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 02:35:57PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>>>> but what to do for Windows?
>>>> Samba?
>>> No real support for symbolic links on the Windows side. I'd have to
>>> copy the file each time I start up or shutdown FireFox, which is
>>> what this add-on does. 
>>
>> ... Why are symbolic links involved?
> 
> So that firefox looks for the bookmarks in the shared directory. 

Why not simply put the profile in a shared directory and point Firefox
there using the profile manager?


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