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Paul Cartwright

3 Apr 2005 3 Apr '05

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today when I logged in ( my network connection was down yesterday) firefox complained about the default profile being in use, so I created a new profile. Now all my old boookmarks are gone. I can't figure out how to administer the profiles, or remove the new one I created. suggestions?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc

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Paul Cartwright

4 Apr 4 Apr

20:25

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today when I logged in ( my network connection was down yesterday) firefox complained about the default profile being in use, so I created a new profile. Now all my old boookmarks are gone. I can't figure out how to administer the profiles, or remove the new one I created. suggestions??

never mind, I figured it out. I did a: ps -ef|grep -i firefox and found there was a firefox process running. There was no icon in the tray, so I have no clue where it was running, but after I killed it I was able to get my old bookma ------------------------------------------------------- -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc

Anthony Edwards

7 Apr 7 Apr

15:41

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On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:25:50PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:

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today when I logged in ( my network connection was down yesterday) firefox complained about the default profile being in use, so I created a new profile. Now all my old boookmarks are gone. I can't figure out how to administer the profiles, or remove the new one I created. suggestions??

never mind, I figured it out. I did a: ps -ef|grep -i firefox and found there was a firefox process running. There was no icon in the tray, so I have no clue where it was running, but after I killed it I was able to get my old bookma

Occasionally this behaviour will also manifest itself after a system crash due to power outage (power failure, the cat pulling the plug out, etc...). After rebooting, the default profile warning may be present. In such a situation, close Firefox, cd to the salt directory (usually similar to ~/.mozilla/firefox/g7o58wb9.default) and then remove a symbolic link which will look similar to this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 anthony users 18 2005-04-06 12:47 lock -> 192.168.0.254:8251 So, the needed command is: anthony@catfish:~/.mozilla/firefox/g7o58wb9.default> rm lock After removing this (stale) symbolic link, restart Firefox and the default profile will again be available for use as normal. -- Anthony Edwards anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net

Paul Cartwright

18:47

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On Thu April 7 2005 11:41 am, Anthony Edwards wrote:

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Occasionally this behaviour will also manifest itself after a system crash due to power outage (power failure, the cat pulling the plug out, etc...). After rebooting, the default profile warning may be present.

my computer is powered by an UPS, so a power outage never happens around here:) I haven't had a real OS crash in.... a very long time. I just had an interesting happening though, somehow my wife decided to reboot the computer, but it didn't finish, leaving me ( not her) logged in, but it left her at the blank screen with a flashing cursor. When I did a real reboot, it still came back up to that same cursor, yes, in init 5. When I rebooted AGAIN and watched the entries, it seems that the NVIDIA driver wasn't loaded correctly, so I reran the .run shell script and it all came back up fine.. no clue why the video driver decided to go south... but thanks for the info on the profiles, much appreciated! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc

Colin Fraser

4 Apr 4 Apr

21:15

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Paul, Firefox normally gives this prompt when you try to start it up and it thinks there's an instanceof it already running (same behaviour as netscape and Mozilla). To save lengthy explanation here on how you might fix the problem have a look at: http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#new (I'm sure Konqueror will do it if you can't get Firefox to show it!). Cheers and good luck, Colin Paul Cartwright wrote:

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today when I logged in ( my network connection was down yesterday) firefox complained about the default profile being in use, so I created a new profile. Now all my old boookmarks are gone. I can't figure out how to administer the profiles, or remove the new one I created. suggestions??

Sunny

22:25

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On Apr 4, 2005 4:15 PM, Colin Fraser wrote:

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Paul,

Firefox normally gives this prompt when you try to start it up and it thinks there's an instanceof it already running (same behaviour as netscape and Mozilla). To save lengthy explanation here on how you might fix the problem have a look at:

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#new

A little OT: how can I run 2 instances of firefox using different profiles. I have some sites which I can access only through a specific socks server, and I do not need it for regular browsing. And it is annoying to go and change connection settings whenever I need to view these sites. Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85

Felix Miata

23:28

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Sunny wrote:

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how can I run 2 instances of firefox using different profiles. I have some sites which I can access only through a specific socks server, and I do not need it for regular browsing. And it is annoying to go and change connection settings whenever I need to view these sites.

This is a script to do it on OS/2: SET MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 SET LIBPATHSTRICT=T SET MOZILLA_HOME=G:\ rem SET PATH=;%PATH% SET BEGINLIBPATH=H:\MozRel\bin H: cd \MozRel\bin mozilla.exe -P gccprof Something similar must be possible with FF on Linux, but I'm not finding a HOWTO that covers it. :-( -- "Love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew 22:39 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

Ganeshram Iyer

5 Apr 5 Apr

17:19

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On Apr 4, 2005 4:15 PM, Colin Fraser wrote:

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Paul, A little OT:

how can I run 2 instances of firefox using different profiles. I have some sites which I can access only through a specific socks server, and I do not need it for regular browsing. And it is annoying to go and change connection settings whenever I need to view these sites.

Sunny I use Firefox 1.0.2 with Suse 9.2 and Xfce 4.2.1.1 and to use a different profile I just run firefox -P newprofilename and I then have two firefox windows using different profiles. I did not know this was

On Apr 4, 2005 5:25 PM, Sunny wrote: possible till I just tried it and it works perfectly. This of course does not work with Windows. Dont know how the model is different on the two OSs but all I know is that it works. Ganesh

Felix Miata

4 Apr 4 Apr

21:27

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Paul Cartwright wrote:

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today when I logged in ( my network connection was down yesterday) firefox complained about the default profile being in use, so I created a new profile. Now all my old boookmarks are gone. I can't figure out how to administer the profiles, or remove the new one I created. suggestions??

Start FF Profile Manager from the CLI thus: firefox -profilemanager or mozilla-firefox -profilemanager to see what it did, and remove any extra. -- "Love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew 22:39 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

Jim Sabatke

21:49

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Paul Cartwright wrote:

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today when I logged in ( my network connection was down yesterday) firefox complained about the default profile being in use, so I created a new profile. Now all my old boookmarks are gone. I can't figure out how to administer the profiles, or remove the new one I created. suggestions??

That happens sometimes. Just delete the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/<something>.default/lock Where <something> is a bunch of odd characters, and it should start up just fine. Jim

Paul Cartwright

5 Apr 5 Apr

13:44

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On Mon April 4 2005 5:49 pm, Jim Sabatke wrote:

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That happens sometimes. Just delete the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/<something>.default/lock

Where <something> is a bunch of odd characters, and it should start up just fine. no such animal.. I looked in .mozilla/firefox and found these: dmppxcr8.paul k93qpwi1.default pluginreg.dat profiles.ini

my original problem was fixed when I did a "ps -ef|grep firefox" and found the offending process, but I was looking for that lock! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc

Jim Sabatke

15:49

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Paul Cartwright wrote:

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On Mon April 4 2005 5:49 pm, Jim Sabatke wrote:

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That happens sometimes. Just delete the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/<something>.default/lock

Where <something> is a bunch of odd characters, and it should start up just fine.

no such animal.. I looked in .mozilla/firefox and found these: dmppxcr8.paul k93qpwi1.default pluginreg.dat profiles.ini

my original problem was fixed when I did a "ps -ef|grep firefox" and found the offending process, but I was looking for that lock!

Yeah, the lock file problem happens more often to me than the orphan process. Glad you found it!! Jim

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