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Article #7467

Re: Switching profiles and launching new ones anomoly

#7467
From: Daniel70
Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 19:45
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On 18/05/2025 1:34 am, David E. Ross wrote:
> 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.
>
NP, David. YL,YL. You live, You learn. ;-P
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Daniel70

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