Re: Opening 2 Firefox profiles

2007-01-03 Thread GeorgeDS
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 16:12, Michael Holstein wrote: > From : http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.html > > (the important bits...) : > * Linux kernel 2.2.14 (with glibc 2.3.2, XFree86-3.3.6, gtk+2.0, > fontconfig/xft and libstdc++5) Mike, thanks for the help. It appea

Re: Opening 2 Firefox profiles

2007-01-03 Thread Michael Holstein
Interesting. As a variety of sources have said "Linux is not an operating system," it's kernel, and there are many incompatibilities between various distributions. Well, that's debatable. But to be clearer ... From : http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.html (the important

Re: Opening 2 Firefox profiles

2007-01-03 Thread George Shaffer
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 13:27, Michael Holstein wrote: > I'm on Linux 2.6.17 (Ubuntu), and the -ProfileManager switch works fine > for me, regardless of what windows are open. Interesting. As a variety of sources have said "Linux is not an operating system," it's kernel, and there are many incompat

Re: Opening 2 Firefox profiles

2007-01-03 Thread Michael Holstein
I'm on Linux 2.6.17 (Ubuntu), and the -ProfileManager switch works fine for me, regardless of what windows are open. Did you check the box "always ask which profile when starting firefox" the first time you created the 2nd profile? ~Mike. George Shaffer wrote: It may be easy on your system

Re: Opening 2 Firefox profiles

2007-01-03 Thread George Shaffer
It may be easy on your system but not mine. I've read this works on Windows. My experience is that it does not on Linux. I've used -ProfileManager with firefox on the path, with the entire explicit path to firefox, and switching to the firefox directory and using ./firefox. I've tried this on Linu

Re: Opening 2 Firefox profiles |was: Re: Tor and Thunderbird: Outgoing Email Unsafe?

2007-01-03 Thread Michael Holstein
It's easy. Start your first instance of firefox as usual. Start the second one like this : "/path/to/firefox -ProfileManager" and create a new profile (call it TOR, or whatever). You'll need to reinstall plugins (eg: FoxyProxy, NoScript, etc) under that new profile, but the settings are separa

Opening 2 Firefox profiles |was: Re: Tor and Thunderbird: Outgoing Email Unsafe?

2007-01-02 Thread GeorgeDS
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 13:23, Michael Holstein wrote: > The reason I suggested seperate Firefox profiles is you can have the > "anonymous" one and a "regular" one open at the same time, since routing > everything through TOR makes your highspeed connection more like dialup > (there's always a tra