Yes, it's just a matter of recreating your settings (copy the . directories)
on a new install:

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-x-ubuntu-610/



On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Renato Patron <linux@patrondesigns.com>wrote:

> Hi, I'm about to sell my laptop, where I have had ubuntu 9.04 running
> for some time. I have customized firefox, evolution, pidgin, etc. and I
> was wondering if it's possible to migrate my current settings (Evolution
> accounts, Firefox settings, themes, fonts, folder structure, etc) from
> my laptop to an external USB hard drive that has ubuntu 9.04 installed
> on it, so I can just plugin the USB drive to my wife's laptop and
> basically run what I have now in my laptop.
>
> Thanks for any answers,
>
> Renato
>
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