On Wednesday 26 January 2005 04:15 pm, Robert Citek wrote: > On Wednesday, Jan 26, 2005, at 15:28 US/Central, Scott Granneman wrote: > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder > > That was enough of a hint. This command brought up the profile manager: > > $ /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -ProfileManager > > and I created a new profile. While that was nice, the new profile has > none of my bookmarks, preferences, etc. In other words, it was > functionally equivalent to deleting the default profile folder and then > restarting FireFox. Also, there doesn't seem to be any way to switch > profiles once FireFox starts, or is there?
you need to copy your booksmarks.html, prefs.js, & other key files into the new profile. that's why it's called a NEW profile. :) yes, you can switch profiles when ff starts: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder#How_do_I_access_the_Profile_Manager.3F > Back on the Unix side: > > I've discovered I can restore normal behaviour by removing only the > chrome.rdf file: > > $ rm "~/Library/Application > Support/Firefox/Profiles/default.rkt/chrome/chrome.rdf" > > A grep through the chrome.rdf file shows a number of references to > Delicious, even though Delicious was supposedly removed. So, now that > I've got things to work again and I've narrowed it down to one file, > I'll let this go, although it would have been nice to trace this down a > bit more. Oh, well. you're fixing one tiny crack but leaving 100s of others. creating a new profile, copying over key files, & reinstalling extensions is the only sure way to fix issues like this. hey, i should write a book on this subject! :) scott -- R. Scott Granneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications: http://www.granneman.com/publications Read the Open Source Blog: http://opensource.weblogsinc.com Join GranneNotes! Information at www.granneman.com "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." ---John Benfield _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list http://www.cwelug.org/ [email protected] http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug
