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I dual-boot Windows 10 and Lubuntu 16.04.3 on one machine. I use Firefox on both OSs. For a long time, I had them both using the same Firefox profile. In Windows, I left the profile in the default location. In Linux, I'd run Firefox with the -profile switch, and point it to the profile. This worked well for a very long time. All configs and extensions, and all profile data, everything worked perfectly in both.
However, since one of the recent major version updates, this doesn't work anymore. This doesn't work since FF 54 or 55, don't remember which. It works halfway only, as follows.
From Linux, everything is fine. But then when I go back to Windows, the profile is botched, but only somewhat. All custom configs are still retained. But I lose all extensions. The about:addons page shows no extensions installed.
This does not happen the other way around. After loading the profile in Windows, then booting into Linux, the profile is fine. Everything is ok.
So, to summarize: After loading the profile in Linux, it's messed up in Windows.
Anyone know what I can do to get it working seamlessly again? Or have definitive info that this cannot work anymore in current versions?
Hope it's clear.
Thanks
1i think the problem may be a different location path hardcoded into the different firefox versions (windows, linux) BTW: did you give the builtin sync function of firefox a try use two separate profiles but sync the to have the same settings and extensions – konqui – 2017-10-12T11:11:19.527
@konqui about the first half of your comment, did you even read the whole thing? About the second half, I did not try the sync – Dr.Ping – 2017-10-12T12:40:38.607
1yes i read the whole thing. May be you don‘t understand that setting the path of the profile file via —profile option does not automatically include setting the extension folder path on older versions these both may have been the same but now may have been separated thats what i was trying to say - also keep in mind i said „i think the problem is“ not „The Problem is“ also i didn‘t us answer because i just wanna give you another Option which may help you. If you really wanna have a solution you‘d probably better ask the Mozilla Developers what they changed in those Versions of Firefox – konqui – 2017-10-12T16:39:00.433