653389 - Allow dual boot installations to share the same profile

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, enhancement)

Description

[lars noodén]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9

If I have a dual boot system (e.g. OS X and Ubuntu) it would be a nice advantage for the two thunderbirds to share the same profile and data.  As it happens now, they cause trouble if both pointed at the same profile.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install thunderbird on OS X
2.Install thunderbird on Ubuntu
3.Symlink thunderbird directories from one OS to the other

Actual Results:  
various error messages, especially with plugins.

Expected Results:  
That thunderbird run smoothly when pointed at a new profile.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

plugin or extensions ?

Comment 2

[lars noodén]

One extension that gives a problem in the dual boot arrangement is Enigmail.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> One extension that gives a problem in the dual boot arrangement is Enigmail.

Indeed - because it is a binary extension.

Comment 4

[lars noodén]

Right, the addons could be sorted into architecture-specific directories or something.  Right now, having the basic functionality work with the same profile on two systems would be a start.