PROFILES! I don't use it much but when I need it there's no substitute. A Firefox pre 1.0 release had support for multiple user profiles, and then it went away. I hope that's one feature that Firefox development is going to include in the next release.
A benefit of having browser and email integrated - profiles can be shared. I hope if firefox and thunderbird support the profile concept that they share them... (I've never installed tbird, forgive my ignorance of its features.)
I use Mozilla browser at home and Firefox at work. I like the fact that browser and email are in the same product - but from work, for some reason, *nothing* except outlook express is able to fetch email from my comcast.net POP3 server. It requires a secure connection, and although Mozilla offers it, it won't work. Don't feel too bad because Outlook doesn't work either, just OE.
Missing from Firefox but available in the suite...
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profiles and profile manager are available in FF and I use them. go and search in the FF forum and you'll find messages explaining how. I just don't have the info available and I'm not much of a techie and don't want to mislead you.
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Ah, but Firefox does have profiles They're just annoyingly hidden, except for one bug (253950) that's constantly biting newbies in the ass.
In fact, a thread just started in the Firefox forums arguing for removal of profile capability from Firefox. Boo, hiss.
Anyway, to open the Profile Manager for Firefox, you:
1. Close Firefox.
2. Go to Start -> Run, and enter
firefox.exe -p
Or if that doesn't work, replace the -p with -profilemanager
Ta-da. There's also a checkbox to have it open whenever you launch Firefox.
In fact, a thread just started in the Firefox forums arguing for removal of profile capability from Firefox. Boo, hiss.
Anyway, to open the Profile Manager for Firefox, you:
1. Close Firefox.
2. Go to Start -> Run, and enter
firefox.exe -p
Or if that doesn't work, replace the -p with -profilemanager
Ta-da. There's also a checkbox to have it open whenever you launch Firefox.
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I hate when people in the forums talk about mozilla in 2nd person. I frequent the forums (too much), and I ain't Mozilla.
Cusser - my heart sank a little when I read the news about the Suite. I did make my way over to the wiki page about the seamonkey project, but I wasn't cheered up a whole lot. So, the people on the seamonkey project are pretty much the sake people that have always been there? Seamonkey is going to continue to develop? I use Firefox full time, but I don't want to give up the suite (or watch it go stale)
Cusser - my heart sank a little when I read the news about the Suite. I did make my way over to the wiki page about the seamonkey project, but I wasn't cheered up a whole lot. So, the people on the seamonkey project are pretty much the sake people that have always been there? Seamonkey is going to continue to develop? I use Firefox full time, but I don't want to give up the suite (or watch it go stale)
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Thanks!
MechR, thanks for the info! How clever of them to have hidden it behind a command-line switch...
I'm guessing that they think logging in as a different Windows user accomplishes the same thing, and for most it probaby would, but some of us want to switch identies without the hassle of re-logging in to Windows. Especially those of us who don't have multiple windows users defined.
-Ken
I'm guessing that they think logging in as a different Windows user accomplishes the same thing, and for most it probaby would, but some of us want to switch identies without the hassle of re-logging in to Windows. Especially those of us who don't have multiple windows users defined.
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Jonnyq, the Mozilla Foundation is providing the use of all the resources that Mozilla utilised thus far, cvs, bugzilla, bonsai, etc.
I was under the impression that over the last few releases, not a lot of changes have been made to Mozilla individually, a lot of changes benefitted Firefox/Thunderbird too. While they won't be paying developers to directly work on the new, community maintained Seamonkey, I doubt it'll change a lot, since the focus on Seamonkey has been gradually depleting anyway.
If you read Boris Zbarsky's plan of action (http://web.mit.edu/bzbarsky/Public/SeaMonkey.txt), then you'll see a few familiar names. Seamonkey will also most likely still benefit from Mozilla.org products, such as Gecko and (potentially) XULRunner.
Mitchell and Asa sum up this issue well.
I was under the impression that over the last few releases, not a lot of changes have been made to Mozilla individually, a lot of changes benefitted Firefox/Thunderbird too. While they won't be paying developers to directly work on the new, community maintained Seamonkey, I doubt it'll change a lot, since the focus on Seamonkey has been gradually depleting anyway.
If you read Boris Zbarsky's plan of action (http://web.mit.edu/bzbarsky/Public/SeaMonkey.txt), then you'll see a few familiar names. Seamonkey will also most likely still benefit from Mozilla.org products, such as Gecko and (potentially) XULRunner.
Mitchell and Asa sum up this issue well.
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Re: Thanks!
vorlonken wrote:MechR, thanks for the info! How clever of them to have hidden it behind a command-line switch...
Try talking about command line switches to Mac users!
Actually, on the Mac, I believe a key combination will bring up the Profile Manager, though.
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Re: Thanks!
casey1992 wrote:vorlonken wrote:MechR, thanks for the info! How clever of them to have hidden it behind a command-line switch...
Try talking about command line switches to Mac users!
Actually, on the Mac, I believe a key combination will bring up the Profile Manager, though.
Well, actually, in Mac OSX, you do have command line, if you choose to use it - it's called Unix!
By the way, what's the deal anyway with having to do a command line switch in Firefox to get the Profile Manager, whereas in the Suite, you don't?
SH
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I can't believe nobody has created an extension to add a profile button for FFox. I just copy the safe mode shortcut created during installation and modify it to bring up the profile manager.
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Win10 64bit: FF 115.0.02 64bit, TB 102.12.0 32-bit ║ Android 13/10: FF 115.2.0/115.0.1 ║ No TB for Android available, dammit!
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