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Article #7464

Re: Switching profiles and launching new ones anomoly

#7464
From: "David E. Ross"
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 08:34
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On 5/17/2025 2:38 AM, Daniel70 wrote:
> On 17/05/2025 8:20 am, David E. Ross wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> I have PrefBar 7.1.1 installed in SeaMonkey 2.53.20.  I created a
>> Profile button for PrefBar that calls toProfileManager();, which
>> launches the SeaMonkey Profile Manager popup.  Selecting a different
>> profile in that popup terminates all instances of SeaMonkey and
>> relaunches it in the selected profile.  It does not allow me to have
>> multiple SeaMonkey sessions each with a different profile.
>>
> David, why did you have to install an Add-on (prefBar) so that you could
> make a new button to launch a new instance of SeaMonkey??
>
> Why not just select Tools -> Switch Profile .... and then select the
> Profile you want??
>

My Profiles button is on my PrefBar toolbar and is always visible.  It
only needs a single click.  To use [Toold > Switch Profiles] requires
two clicks.  Furthermore, I never noticed until now that [Toold > Switch
Profiles] even existed.

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David E. Ross
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