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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Marjorie,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">For our static PC’s, each user has a private folder on a network share, and we have a log on script that redirects Firefox to set up a then use a profile set up in the network share. That contains
the bookmarks, so in effect we have “roaming” bookmarks. It also contains saved passwords and the like.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Two drawback to this method:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">First, you currently can’t have two active sessions. If a user logs onto two machines, they can only one can have Firefox using the network share profile. The other will need to have a local profile
if they need to use Firefox on both. If you try to open Firefox using the network share profile on a second machine, you get a prompt to say Firefox is already running and gives you an option to close it (although that won’t do anything as it’s on a different
PC). Obviously it’s just picking up the .lock file, so doesn’t know to tell the user they have it open on another machine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Second, it requires the network share to be available. That means for no-static devices like laptops, the VPN needs to be active and secure, then (if you are like us and map a drive to the network
share because of legacy stuff) the drive needs to be successfully mapped. Otherwise you get an error message saying the profile is missing or inaccessible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We do use Firefox profile synch for users that need to have Firefox open on two machines concurrently, and also for some laptop users. The drawback to that is our Information Security policy forbids
allowing saved logins to be included as it will leave our control and go under Mozilla’s (as a Third Party).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hope this helps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray">Will Spratt<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray">IT Science Support Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray">Tel: 01904 46 2631</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Enterprise <enterprise-bounces@mozilla.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Menacker, Marjorie S.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 11 July 2019 17:10<br>
<b>To:</b> enterprise@mozilla.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Mozilla Enterprise] Roaming FireFox bookmarks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">What is the best way to save and share the bookmarks for FireFox withoug creating a sync account? We are using Windows 10 in both laptops/desktops and VDI environment that I want shared between environments. I have
tried renaming the default profiles (and updating the profiles.ini) folder to firefox.default, then copying the places.sqlite file and bookmarkbackups to and from a server share each time Firefox launches or closes. This seems to work fine a few times, and
then we will get a message that it’s unable to read the bookmarks and history. When going to Import and Backup menu, all of the previous backups are present, but an error appears when trying to restore them – “Unable to process the backup file”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Subsequently if I use the c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe –p command to create a new profile, copy the bookmarkbackups folder to the new profile, I can successfully restore the old bookmarks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Is there any functional way to share the bookmarks file without creating a Firefox sync account? Can we redirect the bookmarks to that network share? Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Marjorie S. Menacker
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