Firefox 1.5 and profile manager

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blais · Post by **blais** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:52 pm

Hi

With Firefox 1.0.x I used to run two separate profiles: one for my google mail/services (i.e. w/ login), and one for all the rest (including google searches). Thus google cannot tie my identity with my searches. I implemented this by running multiple instances of firefox with different profiles. This was also very useful for developing web apps, I could log in many different user sessions by running multiple firefoxes.

Since I upgraded to Firefox 1.5, I cannot seem to be able to do this anymore. When I run "firefox -profilemanager", I get a new window for the currently running firefox. If I invoke "firefox -p <profile>", only for the first window does it select the correct profile.

Any idea?
I'm sure sure if the problem is related to changes in Firefox or with the gentoo scripts.

anfpunk · Post by **anfpunk** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:59 pm

I'm having this same issue so I'll bump it.

blais · Post by **blais** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:44 am

I'm moving back to 1.0.x, this is too annoying and I have no time to contribute on this issue. Also, 1.5 is slower, dunno why. Maybe it's the build flags, no idea.

Therefore, no more comments here from me does not mean the problem went away...

blais · Post by **blais** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:44 am

BTW The flags comment I made above does not make sense, I'm using mozilla-firefox-bin

GNUtritious · Post by **GNUtritious** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:56 pm

blais wrote:Any idea?

Try:

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export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1

chi-z · Post by **chi-z** » Tue May 09, 2006 3:09 pm

GNUtritious wrote:Try:
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export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1

This worked for me. Thanks!

gen2fox · Post by **gen2fox** » Tue May 09, 2006 3:56 pm

With Firefox 1.0.x I used to run two separate profiles: one for my google mail/services (i.e. w/ login), and one for all the rest (including google searches). Thus google cannot tie my identity with my searches. I implemented this by running multiple instances of firefox with different profiles. This was also very useful for developing web apps, I could log in many different user sessions by running multiple firefoxes.

I don't know if this solves your problem, but I simply block http://www.google.com/ (and other Google hosts except for Gmail's) from using cookies at Edit > Prefs > Privacy > Cookies > Exceptions, with this setup, Gmail works fine, but Google search pages never get any cookies.

Not prefect (cache pages come to mind), but much easier that running two separate sessions.

maybach · Post by **maybach** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:26 pm

Hi,
I recently updated to Firefox 1.5.0.4 and i'm having exactly the same problem as blais has.
When I first start firefox -profilemanager, it works as it should, it asks me about the profile i want to start with.
But when i try to start a new profile, it doen't asks me anything, it just starts a new window with the same profile. I even tried to manually start a profile from a terminal: firefox -P profile_name. No effect, no nothing, exactly the same.
export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 doesn't work for me, zero effect.
I wasn't able to resolve the issue and it's really annoying, i need multiple profiles in firefox.
Pleae help or i'm gonna go crazy