Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Icecat - how to move passwords from Firefox

[Bjoern Nyjorden]

This should not be happening.

If you can install the Firefox pre-built binary on to your Fedora 
systems; either in /usr/local/lib/, or /opt/, or /home/$USER/ and run it 
successfully - which it should, then you would expect that you should be 
able to do the same with Icecat.

It seems to me too that something has gone awry during the Icecat source 
compile?

Kindest regards to you all,
Bjoern Nyjorden

On 02/01/16 23:59, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
> I think I have discovered why I am having so much trouble with Icecat on
> Fedora. I had installed Icecat from the website and NOT from the Fedora
> repositories. If I do this then the browser does not work correctly.
> However if on Fedora 21 I use the available package then it works OK and
> I am able to copy my FF profile across including passwords etc and all
> is fine. The same applies to Fedora 23, the official repositories
> versions of Icecat work but the downloadable ones do not.
>
> I guess this means for Fedora at least Icecat must be compiled from
> source specifically for Fedora. It also means that I am unable to run
> the latest version until such time as the repositories are updated
> (which for Fedora 21 will not now happen).
>
> It is a shame that the downloadable versions of Icecat are not fully
> stand-alone and that there does not seem to be a portable version which
> can be run from a usb stick (at least not one I have found).
>
> So for now I have v38.3 on Fedora 21 and 38.5.0 on Fedora 23.
>
> If anyone can point me to the correct instructions for compiling from
> source I would very much appreciate it.
>
> Stuart