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Article #7462Re: Switching profiles and launching new ones anomoly
From: Richmond
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 00:13
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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