Bookmarks Common to separate user profiles in Mozilla ?

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Ken Seggerman - 23 Nov 2003 22:55 GMT

Greetings:

Mozilla is great accomplishment, and separate user profiles is an
extremely useful new feature.

We use Mozilla 1.6a Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O;
en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031029 on Mac OS X ver 10.1.5. {Build ID:
2003102905}.

I was wondering if a common set of bookmarks can be shared between
separate profiles. If not, I guess I'll post to the wishlist.

Thanks,

Ken

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Bjarne Mathiesen - 24 Nov 2003 12:14 GMT

> I was wondering if a common set of bookmarks can be shared between
> separate profiles. If not, I guess I'll post to the wishlist.

You can simply create a common set of bookmarks in Mozilla.
Then shut down Mozilla.
Open the profile into which you placed the bookmarks.
Move bookmarks.html out into the Profiles folder.
Make it non-modifyable
Delete the bookmarks.html file in all profiles
Create links to the common bookmarks file in all profiles.

There are some wishlists about being able to share bookmarks
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114242
Summary: several separate bookmarks lists

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Ken Seggerman - 24 Nov 2003 14:28 GMT

Thanks for the help.

Before I give this a try, I was just wondering about making the
bookmarks file non-modifiable. I was hoping that each user could add to
or otherwise edit the common bookmarks file, after all, only one user at
a time on my Mac.

When you say create links in the profiles, do you mean using the Unix
symbolic link?

>>I was wondering if a common set of bookmarks can be shared between
>>separate profiles. If not, I guess I'll post to the wishlist.
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114242
> Summary: several separate bookmarks lists

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Bjarne Mathiesen - 24 Nov 2003 14:46 GMT

> Thanks for the help.
>
> Before I give this a try, I was just wondering about making the
> bookmarks file non-modifiable. I was hoping that each user could add to
> or otherwise edit the common bookmarks file, after all, only one user at
> a time on my Mac.

If you want each and every use to be able to modify at will, then by all
accounts just let it be writable by everyone :-) I just assuemed you
wanted a common set of un-modifiable bookmarks.

By user, what exactly do you mean?
One login, and several Mozilla profiles under that user
Several logins, and one Mozilla profile under each user

> When you say create links in the profiles, do you mean using the Unix
> symbolic link?

Either those or the ones you can make in Finder. They are a bit
different, but do some experimentation on a test-profile to see which
one works.

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Riscky - 24 Nov 2003 20:19 GMT

Bjarne Mathiesen spoke::

>>Thanks for the help.
>>
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> One login, and several Mozilla profiles under that user
> Several logins, and one Mozilla profile under each user

I think he desires the idea of having all users have their own set of
bookmarks... but they also share a set of bookmarks... like indested of
having a folder for News sites in your bookmark list you have a shared
bookmark listing...

So im thinking he means something like IE's Imported Items but dynamic.

I hope im not speaking in jiberish.

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Ken Seggerman - 25 Nov 2003 00:32 GMT

> Bjarne Mathiesen spoke::
>
[quoted text clipped - 21 lines]
>
> I hope im not speaking in jiberish.

Here's what I originally meant: several users of Mozilla (not
necessarilly separate logins on the Mac), each with a separate Mozilla
profile (different email and news accounts and preferences all having
read and write access to a common bookmarks file. Easy enough by
creating links.

On further thought (a fancy feature or option for the wishlist), It
would be nice to allow individual Mozilla profile users to allow read
and write, or read-only, or no access to each other's bookmarks while
Mozilla is running, i.e.:

"Honey are you in there on the Mac?"
"Yeah, I'm online and found a really interesting site about..."
"Be sure to bookmark it and bookmark it for my account and Junior's."

At which point the user clicks on the bookmarks icon and before the
bookmarks menu drops down, a small menu showing the usernames of
Mozilla users on the machine drops down. The username of the current
user is highlighted. The usernames of the others appear in regular type,
unless they deny access, in which case they are greyed out or don't
appear at all. The user bookmarks the page on his bookmark file and then
selects the bookmark files of the other users and bookmarks the page for
their profiles. Something like that.

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