Hi.
I frequently need to switch between my work place's windows 7 and home's mac book pro. I would love to be able to continue my browsing etc. I am not concern about bookmark. Rather I need to continue the browsing tabs that I left open when I was at work so I could continue at home on my mac. (Yes. I do market research and have lots of tabs open) I use firefox portable with my flash drive. So, how do I make sure both MAC and Win firefox portable use the same info so I could continue where I left off?
Thanks.
Marc
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Sign in for Firefox Sync and keep them synced between your portable, desktop and Firefox Mobile on Android: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/sync/
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Thanks. That's one way. Is there any other way that you can do without having to go through the website sync? Perhaps some kind of profile or data caches in the portablefirefox directory that I could ask them (win and mac firefox) to share?
Firefox Portable works via Wine on Mac, so you can actually run the Windows version without issue. There are 3 Wine variants available for Mac: WineSkin, WineBottler, and PlayOnMac.
Note for future readers, none of these will install on Mac OS X 10.8 as they don't pay the 'Apple Tax' so you need to turn off the 'Only run digitally signed apps that have paid the Apple tax' option.
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Thanks. That's something I would certainly try! Just for my education sake, where do firefox store my tab history? I figure if I could just read the tab history, it might just solve the problem.
I've not seen a way to do that locally, but xmarks.com (pay for that and lastpass!) works very nicely for that. For android, the Dolphin web browser and plug in (in your desktop browsers) is really handy (plus, lastpass and xmarks have plugins for Dolphin.
Plato seems wrong to me today.