On Wednesday 26 January 2005 06:11 pm, Robert Citek wrote: > On Wednesday, Jan 26, 2005, at 16:31 US/Central, Scott Granneman wrote: > > yes, you can switch profiles when ff starts: > > > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/ > > Profile_Folder#How_do_I_access_the_Profile_Manager.3F > > I think we're differing on the sequence of events. What I am looking > for is this sequence: > - start FireFox > - click on some menu > - switch to new profile
mozilla allows that, but not firefox. not yet anyway. > From what I've read, one must use this sequence: > - open profile manager > - select new profile > - start Firefox correct. > If the sequence I looking for can't be done, that's ok. I'd just like > to know that it can't be done and not that I'm overlooking something. you're right. > > you're fixing one tiny crack but leaving 100s of others. > > There probably are other cracks. But how would one know that and where > they are? That is, what can I do to find the cracks, e.g. grep, find, > perl? copy over profile. remove file. test. remove file. test. repeat. sucks, but that's it. > > creating a new profile, copying over key files, & reinstalling > > extensions is > > the only sure way to fix issues like this. > > OK. But I like the concept of "trust, but verify" (had we followed > that rule we could have spared ourselves a few thousand lives and a few > billion $$$, but I digress.) So, how can I verify that creating a new > profile fixes the issue better than simply removing the chrome.rdf > file? For example, how do I know that the problem is not in one of > those key files? 'cause i've done this a gazillion times, and i'm telling you. :) > > hey, i should write a book on this subject! :) > > When's it coming out? march! there's already info on the o'reilly site! woohoo! http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bluee/ 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 "Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the -- to the back!" ---Senator Dan Quayle, 8/17/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92) _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list http://www.cwelug.org/ [email protected] http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug
