firefox-x11 vs. firefox(-carbon)

[Russell.Stringer.Bell.RIP@…]

This may not be the right place to ask but:

1) Is it possible to make the firefox-x11 port honor the profile(s) created by firefox(-carbon) (manually installed dmg from mozilla.org)? IINM, firefox-x11 stores this in ~/.mozilla while firefox(-carbon) stores this in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox. Wondering if there is a way to get firefox-x11 to load a profile in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox (its extensions, preferences, bookmarks, cache, cookies, etc.)

2) Have there been any attempts/progress at getting firefox(-carbon) and/or camino into the MacPorts tree? If compiling firefox(-carbon) successfully is too much trouble, how about a binary version (like the default variant use_binary used by the abiword port) that simply uses the dmg from mozilla.org?

[afb@…]

1) Is it possible to make the firefox-x11 port honor the profile(s) created by firefox(-carbon) (manually installed dmg from mozilla.org)? IINM, firefox-x11 stores this in ~/.mozilla while firefox(-carbon) stores this in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox. Wondering if there is a way to get firefox-x11 to load a profile in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox (its extensions, preferences, bookmarks, cache, cookies, etc.)

firefox-x11 will not and should not look in ~/Library, so you'll have to migrate those settings yourself. Maybe there could be some support to make it easier.

2) Have there been any attempts/progress at getting firefox(-carbon) and/or camino into the MacPorts tree? If compiling firefox(-carbon) successfully is too much trouble, how about a binary version (like the default variant use_binary used by the abiword port) that simply uses the dmg from mozilla.org?

No such ports yet, but they could be added. But I don't think there's any reason to package binaries, so they should build from source code in order to have any use ?

[vaneijck@…]

each profile is a directory in either directory (Library or .mozilla), so you could chose to move either of them to the other and make links (ln -s). Same for the bookmarks.html file inside these profile directories. However, it could cause some problems if you run both -x11 and -carbon at the same time (overwritting eachothers modifications inside the bookmarks.html file).

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[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

This could probably be an off-by-default variant ...

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

Actually, I don't like this because the profiles might not be backwards / forwards compatible... anyone wanting to explore this can just use symlinks if they really want to.