On 25.02.2011 14:08, Daniel wrote:
I dual boot my HP6730b Laptop with both Win7 and Mandriva Linux 2009.0
and have SM 2.0.11 on both.
Last Sunday evening, I deliberately booted into my Win7 system and
started up SeaMonkey to give it a chance to download any System and AV
updates.
Then I went looking, my SM was plain vanilla installation, so I went to
addons.mozilla.org (or whatever the site is) and installed about a half
dozen extensions like AdBlockPlus, BeeFree, Display mail route, Ghostery
and KaiRo.at Mandelbrot (whatever this does???).
The installations all went without a problem, so on Monday, when I
booted into my Linux SeaMonkey, I was expecting to have to install the
same extensions, but no, they were showing up there in my Linux SM already.
At first I thought "What the heck", but then I thought the Win7 SM
extensions would have been installed in the plug-ins folder {or
whatever} of my SM profile (which is, naturally, on a Win7 drive) and my
Linux SM uses the same profile, and, it would seem, the same plug-ins
folder {or whatever} of my SM profile (which is, naturally, on a Win7
drive because Linux can "see" Windows drives but Windows cannot "see"
Linux mount points.).
But isn't the code words used (whatever) for Windows going to be
different to the code words used for Linux (whatever)??
Hi Daniel,
I have installed WINxp and Ubuntu 10.04 and boot into the one or other
(no WINE .. the Laptop hasn't enough resources).
Under WIN I have all FX/TB/SM installed on C:, the profiles are located
at D:; I separated the mail folders out of the profile dir, so I can use
the mail stack from any of my profile definitions. (Good also to make
the "backup" of the messages easier!).
The extensions are loaded into the individual profiles as normal.
Under Ubuntu I access the (D:) partition as /media/wData/ for the
profiles. And --as you described-- you have direct access to the
extensions and also to the mail folders.
This is possible as long as you don't have extensions with specific code
for WIN (like .DLL included) or Linux (I'm using 'Thunderbird Indicator
1.1 to get 'Notify OSD "black bubbles"' which will fail in the WIN, but
not a problem).
Some extensions may have data files they r/w and for that it can fail
... as long as they don't make provision for that. (With ReminderFox we
do that after first file access we remember the WIN/Linux notation).
Hope it helps, if you need more details about the installations, no
problem ..
Günter
http://www.reminderfox.org
http://www.reminderfox.org/documentation-german
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