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Addons keep getting disabled when switching between Linux and Windows (Using the same profile data).

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Isaac
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I am dual booting Windows and Linux on my laptop. Both operating systems have Firefox Developer Addition installed. I have my Firefox profile folder on a partition which both Linux and Windows can read, and both installs of Firefox use that profile. The problem is, whenever I switch operating systems, all my addons get disabled and I have to manually re-enable them.

Why is it doing this, and how can I keep this from happening?

I know I could just use Firefox Sync, but it is so much more convenient to have all my open tabs on both operating systems exactly the same.

Thanks!

I am dual booting Windows and Linux on my laptop. Both operating systems have Firefox Developer Addition installed. I have my Firefox profile folder on a partition which both Linux and Windows can read, and both installs of Firefox use that profile. The problem is, whenever I switch operating systems, all my addons get disabled and I have to manually re-enable them. Why is it doing this, and how can I keep this from happening? I know I could just use Firefox Sync, but it is so much more convenient to have all my open tabs on both operating systems exactly the same. Thanks!

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UNeverNo
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I'm experiencing the same issue and found a similar issue in bugzilla - would be nice if you post there too and/or vote for the bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433196 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=voting/user.html&bug_id=433196#vote_433196