Copy firefox from frugal to frugal

[dru5k1]

Hi, I've got a frugal install with firefox installed and I'd like to copy that firefox install to another frugal installation (I have no internet atm)

what files would I have to copy over? do those include some libraries/.other small programs? what are those?

[Béèm]

I would install FireFox on the other frugal.
Then rename the created /root/.mozilla to f.e. /root/.mozilla-org
Then copy the /root/.mozilla from the first install to the new one.
You should be able to run Firefox in the new Frugal with the profile of the first one.

[dru5k1]

I should really be saving .pets for times like this when my internets down

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
If you move /root/.mozilla to /mnt/home and link it into /root in your frugal installs, all your frugal Puppies can share one Firefox profile, bookmarks, etc, while not filling up your save file with the cache..

[dru5k1]

oh ok, good to hear that it doesn't need a bunch of libraries

(I actually didn't do this as the computer I was installing to's hdd fails really bad, someone's been shutting down windows with the power button all the time and never scanning/checking the disk, so windows has screwed it from the start to.. who-knows-how-far-through the disk)

[don922]

Hello,
If you move /root/.mozilla to /mnt/home and link it into /root in your frugal installs, all your frugal Puppies can share one Firefox profile, bookmarks, etc, while not filling up your save file with the cache..

I have done this with 3 Puppies; however, how do you update firefox when mozilla issues one of their continual upgrades?

I hope you have some way that is easy!

[Makoto]

You'd update it as you normally would (the Check for Updates button in the About dialog, downloading the new version and expanding it to a directory on your system, etc.).
/.mozilla/ is your profile directory (root folder, normally for both Firefox and Seamonkey (probably Thunderbird as well)), and is separate from the Firefox binary/program directory.

[don922]

You'd update it as you normally would (the Check for Updates button in the About dialog, downloading the new version and expanding it to a directory on your system, etc.).
/.mozilla/ is your profile directory (root folder, normally for both Firefox and Seamonkey (probably Thunderbird as well)), and is separate from the Firefox binary/program directory.

I believe that you misunderstand. The /.mozilla/ on my system is in /mnt/home not in /root. The only thing in /root/.mozilla is a symlink from /mnt/home/.mozilla. Furthermore, I normally update Firefox by using a Firefox.pet. I discovered this is a more efficient way of updating.

[Makoto]

No, I meant that /.mozilla/ is the root (base) folder where Mozilla programs store their profiles (in subdirectories), not that it's necessarily in root. Sorry for the confusion.

Once you have Firefox installed, it's easy to update it via the Check for Updates button in the About box. In fact, I believe Firefox is normally set to automatically update itself, out-of-the-box.

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Essentially, the symlink /root/.mozilla "IS" the target /mnt/home/.mozilla.
Updates, cache, history, etc all function the same....
Also, create a .mozilla.bak copy for backup...