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Subject: Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>
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On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 22:49 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> The profile should be available by 'firefox -ProfileManager' [1], OTOH
> I'm booted to Ubuntu Precise and the ProfileManager doesn't start, for
> Arch Linux I used two profiles, one shared with another Linux and after
> a while I couldn't use the shared profiles anymore, but the
> ProfileManger still started.
> 
> In the past
> rm -fr nh2ykiym.default
> mv 4up9dkb1.default nh2ykiym.default
> worked, or instead simply chose it with the ProfileManger, but nowadays
> there might be something fishy.
> 
> [1] IIRC only one could have the name "*.default", the other must have
> another name, *.foo.

simply try
mv nh2ykiym.default nh2ykiym.test
perhaps it then will use
4up9dkb1.default
automatically