Okay, feeling stupid at this point ... /documents and settings/administrator/mozilla having more than one profile seems to solve the problem ... now i have two questions ... 1. is there a way to share bookmarks? 2. what is the command line to automatically start with a certain profile? i know i've seen it, can't seem to find it offhand now .... some like -Profile "profile name" or something? thanks : r o b rob wrote: > Ok, here's the dealio ... > > Running Win2K professional ... > > I regularly download nightlies, and as we well know now, typically > they're 10x better than Netscape 6.01 even these days, more features, > fewer bugs, faster, etc etc etc. > > For development reasons I want to keep Netscape 6 on my box, but I want > to run Mozilla .8+ as my general use browser. Here's my problem. > > I typically download the ZIP archives (not the installers) for Mozilla. > These I put into a /software/mozbuilds/builddate/ directory ... so I > don't put them over top of each other in case I end up with a bum > build. I just run the .exe right from the file system. > > Right now my NS6 is located in /program files/netscape/netscape6/ and I > run it from shortcuts, etc .... > > Problem I'm having is that they seem to be sharing preferences, and I > want that to stop, particularly because there's a theme i want to be > using for my Mozilla builds which works great there, but literally > breaks my NS6. I want all the preferences seperate. > > I know there's the mozregistry.dat file, but how can I keep seperate > preferences for the two apps? Is it only as simple as a different > profile for each? how do I set up a different profile (can i just use > the NS6 profile manager and create a second profile? -- i guess i'll try > that having just thought of it) Help!! > > Thanks in advance, > > : r o b
