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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 22:52 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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

After a 'killall -9 -w firefox' the ProfileManager did start :). Closing
the windows wasn't enough ;). FWIW version for this Linux install is
15.0.1.