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Article #7462

Re: Switching profiles and launching new ones anomoly

#7462
From: Richmond
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 00:13
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"David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> writes:

> On 5/16/2025 3:26 PM, Richmond wrote:
>> "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> On 5/16/2025 1:36 PM, Richmond wrote:
>>>> If I launch Seamonkey with the normal profile, then select
>>>> about:profiles, then launch another Seamonkey with a different
>>>> profile. I then select from the menu Switch Profiles, and try to
>>>> launch a third profile. I would expect it to replace the second
>>>> instance, but it doesn't seem to do that, it seems to go back to
>>>> the first which is still running.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It seems that using about:profiles merely launches a new window but
>>> NOT with the selected profile.  I never noticed this before since I
>>> never use about:profiles.
>>>
>>
>> On the about:profiles page you have to click the "Launch profile in
>> new browser" by a profile that is not in use.
>>
>
> That is indeed what I did.  But the new browser was still in the old
> profile.

That's strange. It shouldn't be possible to launch the old profile.

Something strange is going on. I was finding when I clicked "launch
profile in new browser" it was coming up with a restart dialog. So I
quit everything out and started again and that problem went away.

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