273382 - need to import/export portable profile

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, enhancement)

Description

[Gregory Seidman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

I use Mozilla on Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. I need a dependable way to keep
their profiles synchronized. This is primarily an issue of cookies and
passwords, but various preferences and extensions are desirable as well. I can
copy various pieces from the profile directory, but it is prone to (user) error.

What I need is some way to export a profile as a single file. Ideally, this file
would be similar to a Java jar, i.e. an archive format that can be dealt with
using common tools (zip), but has extra information included as well.
Additionally, there are a few platform-specific configurations (e.g. MIME
handlers and mozex prefs) and it would be ideal if there were some way to make
it a "fat" format which imports the correct platform-specific stuff.

One step beyond that is the ability to synchronize profiles on demand with some
sort of server (cvs? rsync?), sort of like a cross between DHCP and rsync. That
would pretty much solve everything.

Of course, it is important that whatever solution is used, encrypted information
remains encrypted. I expect it would actually be harder to implement it wrong
than right, however.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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