Please describe the directories and subdirectories and their use in .mozilla on linux
In Linux, the Firefox profile is stored in the .mozilla directory. Under that are the extensions and firefox directories. But under firefox are the profiles directories, crash reports and extensions directories. There appears to be duplicates.
Also, why isn't Thunderbird, a Mozilla app, also under .mozilla?
Thank you.
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Firefox comes in three or more folders on all computers. They are;
Maintenance: (Programs Folder) Firefox itself: (Programs Folder) And one folder in the profile of each user on the computer.
If you remove the Firefox folder, the user folders would not be effected.
Fred this is on Linux, not Windows. Also how does that answer the question anyways.
To actually answer the question, for Thunderbird on Linux it is .thunderbird if it is not in /.mozilla/thunderbird depending ion whether from mozilla.org or a package provided by Linux distro.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb
And duplicates of what? as you can create multiple Profiles so there will be a folder for each Profile in .mozilla/firefox/
Upravil(a) James dňa
Note that Firefox also uses the ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox location to store other data.
Linux and Unix
Profile folders are located here:
~/.thunderbird/<Profile name>/
However, if you're using a third party build from Debian or Ubuntu, those builds store your profile folder here:
~/.mozilla-thunderbird<Profile name>.
I'll restate with more clarity in detail. I am using Xubuntu, and I have ~/.mozilla/firefox ~/.mozilla/extensions (Don't know what this is for.) ~/.mozilla/firefox/extensions (Don't know what this is for.) ~/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports (Don't know what this is for.) ~/.mozilla./firefox/ with my profiles ~/.thunderbird/Crash Reports ~/.thunderbird/ with my profiles
You are correct about the .cache directories. There are: ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox ~/.cache/thunderbird
I had the same breakdown of directories on Fedora 20. (Not sure about the cache ones.) Am I to understand the this is not Mozilla standard arrangement on Linux?
The extensions and plugin folders can be used to install extensions for all profile of the current user. ~/.mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} I'm not aware of the .mozilla/firefox/extensions folder.
- https://developer.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Installing_extensions
- https://developer.mozilla.org/Gecko_Plugin_API_Reference/Plug-in_Basics
The firefox/Crash Reports folder stores the crash reports as you would probably expect.
These are the kind of things I find that Mozilla just leaves out of their documentation. Why not list the simple directory tree and make it easy for users? I could find it no where at all. Why is it such a secret?
Why don't they note any changes that might be seen in old directory structures, if indeed that is where the extras came from?
Why is there a difference in the locations of Thunderbird? There appears no reason for it?
Well besides the tarball Linux builds of Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey from mozilla.org there are the third-party packaged builds from the many Linux distros out there so there can sometimes be slight differences. It seems to be more common with Thunderbird vs Firefox in this case though.
The Extensions are either ones you installed from places like the https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/ host or from Extensions that some Linux distros sometimes add as openSuSE certainly tries to do that.
How bizzare. We need more work on the LSB, as well as standardization on directory structure (even if there is a need for more that one choice) in Linux distros, and even with menu structure choices on various desktop environments. They don't all need to be the same, but there must be a way to force compliance with some of these reasonable standards. If someone wishes to reinvent the wheel, they must not let that work disrupt well-know and popular cross-platform applications like these from Mozilla.
Thanks for the good explanations everyone.
FredMcD said
Firefox comes in three or more folders on all computers. They are; Maintenance: (Programs Folder) Firefox itself: (Programs Folder) And one folder in the profile of each user on the computer. If you remove the Firefox folder, the user folders would not be effected.
Solved my problem, didn't have a plug-in for Firefox under Linux: On OpenSUSE the browser drivers are stored under dir: /usr/lib64/browser-plugins First started Firefox and clicked on Help and Troubleshoot Info. Second, clicked on Plug-in under Firefox plug-in info. This mentioned /usr/lib64/browser-plug-ins Third, download plug-in, placed in my downloads directory. Download is of course compressed format. Used the File Manager to uncompress the readme.txt and *.so file. (.so files are stored under the /usr/lib64/browser-plug-ins directory) Fourth, login as su or request your Adminstrator to install the uncompressed download into the /usr/lib64/browser-plugin directory. I used the mv command to move the *.so file from Downloads to plug-in directory. Change the file permissions to match the other files in the directory with chmod command. The driver probably needs the execute permission set to work. Use ls -l command to verify that file permissions are the same as the other drivers in the plug-ins directory. Logout of superuser mode. Now, if the media loads, but still doesn't seem to work, once again click Help from Mozilla menu, click Troubleshoot and click Mozilla reset.
The above sequence fixed my problems... 1) Downl
Not sure why you quoted FredMcD when his reply was more for Windows and not Linux.