{"id":848,"date":"2008-06-25T23:54:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T04:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=848"},"modified":"2008-06-25T23:54:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T04:54:29","slug":"migrating-firefoxthunderbird-from-linux-to-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/25\/migrating-firefoxthunderbird-from-linux-to-os-x","title":{"rendered":"Migrating Firefox\/Thunderbird from Linux to OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I <em>completed<\/em> my migration of my personal machine to one that runs OS X. For those not following Twitter, I picked up a MacBook Air last week, and have slowly been moving my stuff off from the Dell. The Dell can now serve as a full development machine, and I can start running &#8220;unstable&#8221; Linuxes on it now (&#8220;unstable&#8221; like Rawhide).<\/p>\n<p>But I digress. This is about how I moved Thunderbird and Firefox over to my new box.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thunderbird:<\/strong><br \/>\nCopy <tt>~\/.thunderbird<\/tt> over, and place it in <tt>~\/Library\/Thunderbird<\/tt> on OS X. Only problem I found was with the Lightning plugin, which managed to grab itself an update, and all was dandy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Firefox:<\/strong><br \/>\nCopy <tt>~\/.mozilla\/firefox<\/tt> over, and place it in <tt>~\/Library\/Application Support\/Firefox<\/tt>. All the plugins I had, just ran fine.<\/p>\n<p>Only snag? I couldn&#8217;t find a copy of Firefox 2 online. Good thing I had a copy on another Mac&#8230; Why did I need Firefox 2? Google Browser Sync. Though I suspect that in the very near future, I&#8217;ll move over to Mozilla Weave, and get all my systems up to speed with Firefox 3.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, lets see how long I run OS X on the Air&#8230; or do I replace it with Linux if it annoys me significantly enough?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Migrating%20Firefox%2FThunderbird%20from%20Linux%20to%20OS%20X&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F06%2F25%2Fmigrating-firefoxthunderbird-from-linux-to-os-x&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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