[TriLUG] how to move Mozilla profile from Win98 to Fedora

[Joseph Tate]

Christopher L Merrill wrote:
> My wife will be making the move from Windows to Linux soon...but I
> need to move her Mozilla profile, first.  I've gone through this
> nightmare in the past with my own profile -- it was cumbersome and I
> seem to remember loosing some stuff.  Both machines have Mozilla 1.4.1
> on them.  I expected to find something like _Export_Profile_ in the
> menus somewhere...but maybe I've missed it.
> 
> Specifially, I need to preserve:
> - bookmarks
> - address book
> - mail folders and filters
> - mailbox and newsgroup configuration

Make a good backup!

Then after starting mozilla and creating a profile copy the contents of 
the old profile over the new.  That should work.

Unfortunately I have not been able to get a new mozilla to use an old 
profile.  Probably some setting I'm missing that doesn't go in the local 
profile dir.