On 11/15/2009 7:11 PM, Leonidas Jones wrote:
> Leonidas Jones wrote:
>> Rufus wrote:
>>> Benoit Renard wrote:
>>>> Rufus wrote:
>>>>> SM 2.0 allows multiple profiles - they've just hidden the Profile
>>>>> Manager without telling anyone...like with a few other features.
>>>> What makes you say that? As another reply to your post says, it still
>>>> pops up when you have more than one profile. It has never popped up by
>>>> default when you only have one.
>>> Initially I only had one Profile...and using the usual method of holding
>>> down the option key at startup no longer brings up the Profile
>>> Manager...it activates some sort of "safe mode". Nice feature, no
>>> notification.
>>>
>>> Like the other poster, I had to search to find a way to add a second
>>> Profile - because not all of my 1.1.18 Profiles were transfered during
>>> the upgrade...the way to do that wasn't obvious based on previous
>>> behavior. Hidden, moved, revised...whatever.
>>>
>> I agree that some notice might have been nice, but it is actually an
>> improvement. If you have one profile, you can still invoke Profile
>> Manager via Tools>>Switch Profile, or using Terminal. That beats
>> Firefox, where Profile Manager can only be invoked via Terminal. And you
>> now have an easy way to invoke Safe Mode, which used to require Terminal.
>>
>> Yes the migration wizard is geared for the "average" user, who has only
>> one profile, and may not even know what a "profile" is.
>>
>> For me it worked fine. The two other profiles I had were a test profile,
>> and my Netscape 7.2 profile, which still runs fine in that application.
>> That works well for me, since I now won't open NS or SM in the wrong
>> profile.
>>
>> If you have multiple profiles, you can still set it to open Profile
>> Manager at startup.
>>
>> Lee
> 
> Fudge, the following Terminal command used to open Profile Manager:
> 
> /Applications/SeaMonkey.app/Contents/MacOS/seamonkey-bin -profilemanager
> 
> It does not seem to work anymore.  Anybody have an idea of how to open 
> PM from Terminal?
> 
> Lee

>From Windows XP, the -profileManager parameter still works with
SeaMonkey 2.0.  Note that the "p" is lower-case and the "M" is upper-case.

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