My daughter just emailed me and said that the two profiles she has been
using for the last few months now seem to be "interacting(?)."

My daughter uses the default profile and my grand daughter uses another
profile I set up for her back in December. I then created the two
shortcuts and put them on the desktop (and in the quick launch - Windows
XP).

She said that when she opens her default profile, it opens with the home
page my grand daughter's profile uses. She changed that, but now my
grand daughter's profile uses that new home page, too and no longer has
the cats theme that she likes.

I told her to look for a phantom Firefox running in task manager, but
have not hear back yet.

Any other ideas of where to look - how this could happen?

A couple of weeks ago I had my daughter open the profile manager, select
the default profile (hers) and check "Don't ask at startup" (so that her
profile would be the one used when clicking on a link in another app).
That has been working the way it is supposed to.

I'm sure they are using 1.0.7. (It's so unfortunate that upgrading
Firefox is not straight forward enough to be able to tell other people
to do it themselves. ... Anyway ... I'm sure this is 1.0.7.)

annnd .... Why doesn't the Profile Manager let you see what the name of
the profile folder is (it only shows you the name of the profile and
Create, Rename, or Delete)?

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The lack of it is common.
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On 30-04-2006 21:53 CET, Chuck Anderson composed this enchanting statement:
> My daughter just emailed me and said that the two profiles she has
> been using for the last few months now seem to be "interacting(?)."
>
> My daughter uses the default profile and my grand daughter uses
> another profile I set up for her back in December. I then created the
> two shortcuts and put them on the desktop (and in the quick launch -
> Windows XP).
>
> She said that when she opens her default profile, it opens with the
> home page my grand daughter's profile uses. She changed that, but now
> my grand daughter's profile uses that new home page, too and no longer
> has the cats theme that she likes.
>
> I told her to look for a phantom Firefox running in task manager, but
> have not hear back yet.
>
> Any other ideas of where to look - how this could happen?
>
> A couple of weeks ago I had my daughter open the profile manager,
> select the default profile (hers) and check "Don't ask at startup" (so
> that her profile would be the one used when clicking on a link in
> another app). That has been working the way it is supposed to.
>
> I'm sure they are using 1.0.7. (It's so unfortunate that upgrading
> Firefox is not straight forward enough to be able to tell other people
> to do it themselves. ... Anyway ... I'm sure this is 1.0.7.)
>
> annnd .... Why doesn't the Profile Manager let you see what the name
> of the profile folder is (it only shows you the name of the profile
> and Create, Rename, or Delete)?
The program always starts with the last profile used. So I think, they
are not using your shortcuts all the time.

The user can change the profile name, but not the profile folder
associated with it.

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Kind regards,

Melchert

MacOS 10.3.9/Firefox 1.5/Thunderbird 1.5

Melchert Fruitema wrote:

>On 30-04-2006 21:53 CET, Chuck Anderson composed this enchanting statement:
>
>
>>My daughter just emailed me and said that the two profiles she has
>>been using for the last few months now seem to be "interacting(?)."
>>
>>My daughter uses the default profile and my grand daughter uses
>>another profile I set up for her back in December. I then created the
>>two shortcuts and put them on the desktop (and in the quick launch -
>>Windows XP).
>>
>>She said that when she opens her default profile, it opens with the
>>home page my grand daughter's profile uses. She changed that, but now
>>my grand daughter's profile uses that new home page, too and no longer
>>has the cats theme that she likes.
>>
>>I told her to look for a phantom Firefox running in task manager, but
>>have not hear back yet.
>>
>>Any other ideas of where to look - how this could happen?
>>
>>A couple of weeks ago I had my daughter open the profile manager,
>>select the default profile (hers) and check "Don't ask at startup" (so
>>that her profile would be the one used when clicking on a link in
>>another app). That has been working the way it is supposed to.
>>
>>I'm sure they are using 1.0.7. (It's so unfortunate that upgrading
>>Firefox is not straight forward enough to be able to tell other people
>>to do it themselves. ... Anyway ... I'm sure this is 1.0.7.)
>>
>>annnd .... Why doesn't the Profile Manager let you see what the name
>>of the profile folder is (it only shows you the name of the profile
>>and Create, Rename, or Delete)?
>>
>>
>The program always starts with the last profile used. So I think, they
>are not using your shortcuts all the time.
>
>The user can change the profile name, but not the profile folder
>associated with it.
>
>
>
Thanks. Not sure what went wrong but my daughter got back to me and it
seems that one of the profile names had a space in it and the quotes
were in the wrong place on the short cut.

i.e.,
pathto/firefox.exe - p "profile name" (correct)
was
pathto/firefox.exe "-p profile name" (incorrect)

Not sure why these shortcuts had previously been working for them, but
that was the problem.

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Chuck Anderson • Boulder, CO
http://www.CycleTourist.com
Integrity is obvious.
The lack of it is common.
*****************************

Chuck Anderson wrote:
> My daughter just emailed me and said that the two profiles she has been
> using for the last few months now seem to be "interacting(?)."
>
> My daughter uses the default profile and my grand daughter uses another
> profile I set up for her back in December. I then created the two
> shortcuts and put them on the desktop (and in the quick launch - Windows
> XP).
>
> She said that when she opens her default profile, it opens with the home
> page my grand daughter's profile uses. She changed that, but now my
> grand daughter's profile uses that new home page, too and no longer has
> the cats theme that she likes.
>
> I told her to look for a phantom Firefox running in task manager, but
> have not hear back yet.
>
> Any other ideas of where to look - how this could happen?
>
> A couple of weeks ago I had my daughter open the profile manager, select
> the default profile (hers) and check "Don't ask at startup" (so that her
> profile would be the one used when clicking on a link in another app).
> That has been working the way it is supposed to.
>
> I'm sure they are using 1.0.7. (It's so unfortunate that upgrading
> Firefox is not straight forward enough to be able to tell other people
> to do it themselves. ... Anyway ... I'm sure this is 1.0.7.)
>
> annnd .... Why doesn't the Profile Manager let you see what the name of
> the profile folder is (it only shows you the name of the profile and
> Create, Rename, or Delete)?
>
Are both shortcuts set up to specify the profile (i.e., " -p daughter"
and " -p granddaughter")? I suspect only the granddaughter's is set that
way, which means that "Don't Check at Startup" is always loading the
granddaughter's profile.

Irwin

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