Simultaneous profiles?

[thugdrummer]

My wife and I share the one PC at home. Often I want to do some browsing, but she's already using her profile in mozilla. I need my bookmarks, but I don't want to terminate her browser session. Is it possible for me to start a mozilla sessin using my profile, while another mozilla session is runbning with a different profile?

[thugdrummer]

Sorry, I clicked on the wrong forum.

[SweetLou]

What OS? I guess Windows 98. Did you try firefox.exe -P <profile name>?

[couldabeen]

The longer answer is to set up desktop shortcuts for each profile with the profile name after the firefox.exe as show above, except include the profle name in quotes.
If your wife is already on, click on yours and it should open with no problems.
My wife and I have done this for all Mozilla products and as far back as Netscape when they introduced the profile concept.

Here is the target box for my profile shortcut;
F:\Mozilla\firefox-browser\firefox\firefox.exe -P "<profile name>"

[the-edmeister]

couldabeen:
That really works? 1 version of Firefox with 2 simultaneous users?

[couldabeen]

Yes it does! I checked it before I posted my response.

I have my wifes FX profile up as I type this,and am able to navigate freely in both.

[the-edmeister]

d@mn I'm gonna have to try that!

[JrzyCrim]

You may need to set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1

I set that as an environment variable to avoid using a batch file to launch FF.

[Raven9998]

Hi, new topic...
When I opend Firefox just now, it asked me about creating a new profile. I did, but now can't get back to my old profile. Where / how do you choose the default profile?

Raven

[rtmjr50]

Hi, new topic...
When I opend Firefox just now, it asked me about creating a new profile. I did, but now can't get back to my old profile. Where / how do you choose the default profile?

Raven

Next time please start a new post .... your questions has nothing to do with this post ...

to fix your problem ...
read: http://the-edmeister.home.comcast.net/t ... g_box.html

if that does not fix it .... read: http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?t ... 7t_Startup

later, Richard