Firefox 3 keeps losing my bookmarks

[Chris Stark]

Hi All,

My home network consists of a few workstations that NFS-mount my home
directory which is hosted on a central CentOS 5.2 server (clients use
use autofs). Ever since I installed F9, I have lost my bookmarks several
times, and it seems that my whole profile gets corrupted. I have tried
both "async" and "sync" options with autofs, and it doesn't seem to make
a difference.

While it would seem that soft linking my profile to a local folder would
solve the issue, it would also mean that my profile would not follow me
between workstations. Is there anything I can do?

I have seen mumblings on various forums that lead me to believe that
Firefox doesn't work terribly well with NFS mounted profiles. Is this
true? If so, it would seem to be rather short-sighted, seeing as NFS is
the primary method of file sharing in Unix/Linux. Help!!! :)

Thanks in advance!

Aloha,
Chris Stark

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[Timothy Murphy-2]

Chris Stark wrote:

> While it would seem that soft linking my profile to a local folder would
> solve the issue, it would also mean that my profile would not follow me
> between workstations. Is there anything I can do?

I don't really understand your problem, but have you tried using foxmarks?
Not sure if it would help you,
but I find it useful when using several laptops.


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[Patrick O'Callaghan-2]

On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 15:07 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Chris Stark wrote:
>
> > While it would seem that soft linking my profile to a local folder would
> > solve the issue, it would also mean that my profile would not follow me
> > between workstations. Is there anything I can do?
>
> I don't really understand your problem, but have you tried using foxmarks?
> Not sure if it would help you,
> but I find it useful when using several laptops.

Foxmarks works pretty well for bookmarks, though they don't encrypt your
data on their servers, so beware.

Weave is a new add-on (0.2 was just released) which is supported by
Mozilla itself and can handle bookmarks, cookies and several other
things. It does encrypt your data (in the client, so the server never
sees the plaintext). Unfortunately there are problems with the 64-bit
versions at the moment.

poc

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[Cameron Simpson]

On 03Jul2008 19:21, Chris Stark <cstark@...> wrote:
> While it would seem that soft linking my profile to a local folder would  
> solve the issue, it would also mean that my profile would not follow me  
> between workstations. Is there anything I can do?

You could run your firefox from a shell wrapper. Treat the local folder
as a cache. Rsync from the master to the local folder, run firefox,
rsync back at exit. You could even do backups.

A little cumbersome, but probably more reliable. It should also get you
faster performance, since disc access will be local.
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On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:21:43 -1000, Chris Stark wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> My home network consists of a few workstations that NFS-mount my home
> directory which is hosted on a central CentOS 5.2 server (clients use
> use autofs). Ever since I installed F9, I have lost my bookmarks several
> times, and it seems that my whole profile gets corrupted. I have tried
> both "async" and "sync" options with autofs, and it doesn't seem to make
> a difference.
>
> While it would seem that soft linking my profile to a local folder would
> solve the issue, it would also mean that my profile would not follow me
> between workstations. Is there anything I can do?
>
> I have seen mumblings on various forums that lead me to believe that
> Firefox doesn't work terribly well with NFS mounted profiles. Is this
> true? If so, it would seem to be rather short-sighted, seeing as NFS is
> the primary method of file sharing in Unix/Linux. Help!!! :)
>
> Thanks in advance!

This is probably due to

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417037

For the time being, using firefox profile on the local disk is your best
option.

C

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