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What permission settings are necessary to have addons save after restart?

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Running OpenSuse 13.2 with Firefox 46.0.1

The Firefox files were copied over from an old XP machine onto a new OpenSuse machine (copied over to /home/cmartin/.mozilla). After a reinstall of Firefox to get the necessary files to carry over (passwords, history, bookmarks, etc.), I noticed that addons would not save after reboot. When I open an instance of Firefox as Root, the addons remain after reboot. As a standard user, the addons disappear after reboot. The files appear to be 600 (for files) or 700 (for directories). The ownership points to cmartin:users.

What files do I need to chown or chmod and with what settings to get addons to save for the standard user after reboot?

Running OpenSuse 13.2 with Firefox 46.0.1 The Firefox files were copied over from an old XP machine onto a new OpenSuse machine (copied over to /home/cmartin/.mozilla). After a reinstall of Firefox to get the necessary files to carry over (passwords, history, bookmarks, etc.), I noticed that addons would not save after reboot. When I open an instance of Firefox as Root, the addons remain after reboot. As a standard user, the addons disappear after reboot. The files appear to be 600 (for files) or 700 (for directories). The ownership points to cmartin:users. What files do I need to chown or chmod and with what settings to get addons to save for the standard user after reboot?

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James
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When I copy over a backup Profile for Firefox or SeaMonkey on Linux I make sure the browser is closed. Then start the browser with the -Profilemanager switch to then create a new Profile.

I then quit the browser and go find the Profile I created and the backup Profile. I then delete the contents in new Profile and copy the content from backup profile and paste into new Profile. Then I start the browser with new Profile selected and all should be there.

Though since you are going with a Profile from Windows Firefox you may want to just copy over your essentials first and try.