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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:04:12 +0100
From:      Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
Message-ID:  <1360706652.2162.351.camel@precise>
In-Reply-To: <1360705929.2162.344.camel@precise>
References:  <49865.1360705091@server1.tristatelogic.com> <1360705782.2162.342.camel@precise> <1360705929.2162.344.camel@precise>

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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.




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