'choose user profile' popup won't go away

[theunstar]

After a firefox update a few weeks ago I started seeing the "choose user profile" popup everytime I launch the browser. It has nothing to do with the browser's process not being terminated, as it occurs even after a system restart. "use the selected profile without asking at startup" is checked and my profiles.ini looks like this:

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[Install***]
Default=D:\Firefox profile\****.default
Locked=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=D:\Firefox profile\****.default\
Default=1

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
Version=2

I noticed that if I delete the [Install*] section, next firefox startup is without a popup, but the .ini is again overwritten once firefox is closed, so the problem persists.

Any suggestions much appreciated

[Brummelchen]

you need to read the whole story
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3050319

its your way to push commands to a running instance.

[theunstar]

Thank you! However, that thread is a bit over my head. It did at least help me add the profile name as a parameter to the browser shortcut:

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"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P "default"

This solves maybe 80% of my problem - lanching via this particular shortcut now works ok. The problem (obviously) persists whenever the browser is launched any other way.

[therube]

choose user profile

I was going to say, "that's the Profile Manager".
But looking just now, sure enough, they call it "Choose User Profile".

Anyhow, it is the Profile Manager .

[atlanto]

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[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=D:\Firefox profile\****.default\
Default=1

It must be
Path=D:\Firefox profile\****.default
(trailing "\" is unnecessary)

[theunstar]

It must be
Path=D:\Firefox profile\****.default
(trailing "\" is unnecessary)

Ok wow, this actually helped, THANK YOU! Such a stupid little thing.

[therube]

Good catch atlanto.

Now that begs the question, how did the \ get in there?
Did you manually enter the path there & when you did, including the \ ?

[theunstar]

I moved the profile years ago and it's possible I had to enter the path manually back then, I don't remember. Firefox definitely didn't care until an update a few weeks ago, though.

It actually works just as well with the backslash, it's just that both paths (under [install] and [profile*]) have to be the same. So I'm guessing firefox added the [install] section lately and in it a backslash-less path, which caused this weird issue.