firefox profile synchronized w. unison cannot save anything
Vitorio Okio
ovitorio at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 24 02:01:25 UTC 2010
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:48:05 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:
> I have 3 PCs running Hardy, Karmic, and Fedora 12, with Firefox on each
> of them: v. 3.0.18 on Hardy and v. 3.5.8 on both Karmic and Fedora.
>
> I created "shared" profile on each system and synchronize them using
> Unison. Ubuntu 8.04 is a base system for synchronization.
>
> The synchronization itself works just fine on all 3 systems. No
> problems what's ever on either of Ubuntu's.
>
> In Fedora however I'm having a problem. While using "shared" profile I
> can save neither a web page nor a download (unless I use some of add-on'
> as described below).
>
> If either Save Page As... or Save Link As... menu items are selected the
> requests are simply ignored with no response from FF. However using
> Download Them All ad-on does the job. Equally Scrapbook add-on allows me
> to save/capture pages.
>
> The default profile works as expected.
>
> I thought SELinux is on the way but disabling it (for a test sake) did
> not changed things. All permissions in "shared" profile directory to me
> look OK.
>
> I'm new to Fedora and cannot figure it out myself, need you help, folks.
>
> Thanks.
Since I had no replies here I tried to find some help on forums. A fellow
asked me a question that helped me to see were I was unclear in my
original post here. So, here some clarification.
I did not synchronize any of application files between different
distro's. By stating:"I created "shared" profile on each system and
synchronized them using Unison", I meant the following.
I created new user profiles in Firefox and named them "shared" on all of
my 3 systems. The name could be any other, the goal was to keep the user
profile names equal on each system in order to simplify Unison
configuration files.
The Fedora Firefox profile synchronized the way I described is fully
functional except the little problem described. I actually would rather
call it a minor annoyance (since I use for save/download add-on's anyway)
if not my wish to learn something new about Fedora, and, I still suspect,
SELinux.
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