First time ever doing a Firefox Refresh, which only works with the Default =1 as shown in the profiles.ini file.
Didn't notice anything strange at first after doing the Refresh. But when I went to launch the Profile Manager I saw two Profiles in the PM window and didn't expect to see two. But one had been Refreshed, so I opened the other which looked familiar and I wanted to see what I done with it or why had created a 2nd one. Couldn't figure out why it was there.
Skip forward two days until a couple of hours ago when I was helping another user and I opened my "user" profiles.ini file only to see one solitary Profile. WTF - I had two Profiles 2 days ago? So I used the other desktop shortcut with the-p and opened the Profile Manager and saw two Profiles with - didn't occur to me at the time that the PM shouldn't have opened without the -no-remote command, but it did. So 2 hours later I finally figured out what was going on ....
And today I noticed that my limited user login account now says Log Off Administrator... and when I restarted Windows I came to realize the two accounts had switched. Limited user desktop and programs appear in the Admin login account and vice versa. Somewhat like these movies ...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093418/ - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096380/ & http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302640/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 - gotta love a Rob Schneider movie!
My limited user account is using the profiles.ini file from my Administrator account, displaying the Profiles from that Admin account, and opening those Profiles in my limited user account - which may be why both will open (one at a time) without needing -no-remote. As I was opening multiple explorer windows along with the Profile Manager window to get a screenshot of three separate windows open at once to 'document" what I was seeing - I failed to look at the complete file path on the Profile with the shortest name was in the Users > Administrator > AppData path. The refreshed Profile name was so long that only AppData > ... appeared.
And it looks like the Default Profile in that Admin account wasn't touched, as far as I can tell. I am guessing that two limited user account Profiles got moved to the Admin Profiles folder so there's 3 in that folder now - but . And the best part is it looks like the Admin and limited user accounts had switched places; Desktop appearance and settings for my limited user logon account, but the PaleMoon and SeaMonkey Desktop shortcuts are using Profiles from the Admin account now - as opened via the Troubleshooting Information page in both browsers. But I set both of them up in the limited account and didn't even have desktop shortcuts or Profiles in the Admin account.
Things are so messed up now that it looks like a clean install of Win7 is on the table. Good thing that all my other 3 Firefox programs are installed on the D:/ drive along with their Profiles AND the other two Profiles that are associated with that default Firefox installation are on D:/ too. I also have a text list of the desktop shortcut Target lines for the default Firefox installation remote profiles. I may be riding a new horse now (this PC that I built last spring), but I'm no stranger to this Firefox rodeo. This Fox has bucked me before, so I am prepared. But before I reinstall Windows 7, I think I'll try another Refresh to see if Firefox refreshes back to where it was.
I wonder if anyone else has ever heard of something so screwed up?
Ed