On 04/03/06 17:49, Paul Schmehl wrote: > Does anyone know how to get Firefox 1.5 to *always* start with the > ProfileManager? I'm using KDE 3.5, FreeBSD 6.0, Xorg 6.9.0 and Firefox > 1.5. I've created an application starter on the menubar that has the > path to firefox (/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox) with the argument > -ProfileManager. The first time I start Firefox, the profile manager > pops up and prompts me to select a profile. All subsequent launches of > Firefox use the profile that I selected initially. I want Firefox to > prompt me *every* time it starts, because I have created several > profiles, each designed to do different tasks and be open in different > windows. Each profile uses tabbed Homes so I can start a number of tabs > with different tasks in them. > > I've edited profile.ini as follows: > StartWithLastProfile=0 > and > StartWithLastProfile=1 > > Neither setting makes any difference at all. Checking and unchecking > the box to start on startup *also* does nothing. (As does the prompt to > make firefox the default browser.) > > I even tried removing StartWithLastProfile entirely. *Nothing* works. > There's no man pages for firefox, firefox-bin, profile.ini, > profilemanager, mozilla or mozilla-bin, and googling has been futile so > far.
Hi Paul, it's working here as expected - "Don't ask at startup" box changes StartWithLastProfile to 0/1 and ProfileManager starts every time if set to 0. I'm using it ever since I installed Firefox 2.0a in addition to 1.5. The machine is running FreeBSD 6-STABLE, Firefox 1.5 and 2.0a, Enlightenment DR17 but I doubt it's related. Maybe you're editing the wrong file? Or while Firefox is running? Too tight file permissions? Just some thoughts. Here's mine profiles.ini: --------------------- $ ls -l ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 karol karol 216 Apr 3 18:01 /home/karol/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini $ cat ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini [General] StartWithLastProfile=0 [Profile0] Name=1.5 IsRelative=1 Path=xxxxxxxx.1.5 [Profile1] Name=temp IsRelative=1 Path=xxxxxxxx.temp [Profile2] Name=2.0-alpha1 IsRelative=1 Path=xxxxxxxx.2.0-alpha1 Default=1 --------------------- HTH, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org> OpenPGP: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc
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