Hack: Portable Firefox

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Goal Of the Tutorial: To make a portable Firefox folder that you can carry or access from both windows and Linux.
I hate it when i have to install same things at many places, same is with Firefox bookmarks and add-ons.
I am having a system with both windows and Linux and I work on both as I please.
but Installing same add-ons and bookmarks in different places is not a good idea.
I found out that you can make Firefox to use a user specified profile folder.
profile folder is the place where Firefox save Your add-ons , bookmarks, cache and even history.
So I decided to use only one Firefox profile folder.

In Windows:--------------
what you have to do is to make a folder ,give it any name as u like.

Make a batch file named "Firefox.bat" (again u can name it whatever u like with extension bat )
put the following line in it

REM Firefox start batch file
\Firefox.exe -Profile

Tip: You can now copy your Firefox folder ,this profile folder and the batch file to a USB drive and run your same Firefox everywhere you go. Just change the address of firefox.exe

replace "" with folder address where u have installed/Copied Firefox , usually "c:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox"
and with full address of your profile folder you just have created

save and close it.
double click it to start Firefox..

In Linux:
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mount your windows drive (USB or HDD) in which u have your profile folder

make a launcher on desktop

fill the command entry as
"Firefox --profile "

replace with full address of your profile folder

double click it to run Firefox...
Hurrah!! now you don't have to install your same add-on, bookmark in two different places ...
Caution: it would be better if u have same Firefox in both of the places otherwise it will check for compatibilities every time.