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I suspect most people don't even know firefox has a ProfileManager, but |
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I'm here to warn you not to use it. It just cost me years of bookmarks |
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and saved passwords. |
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For testing purposes I invoked firefox-bin with the -ProfileManager |
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flag (don't do this, it's broken!) and created a fresh firefox profile |
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with the name "temp" as I've been doing for years. |
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I ran the "temp" profile while doing my testing, quit firefox and then |
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re-invoked firefox with the -ProfileManager flag and used it to delete |
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the "temp" profile because I didn't need it any more. |
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Unfortunately, deleting "temp" also deleted the "default" profile I've |
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been using for years, which had all of my bookmarks and saved passwords |
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and maybe other stuff I haven't even thought about yet. |
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I'm copying an old firefox profile from another machine that's four |
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years out of date. Maybe I can rescue an ort here or there. |
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What a fscking disaster. |
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Lesson learned: if you need to start firefox with a fresh profile, |
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just move your ~/.mozilla directory out of the way and let firefox |
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create a new one from scratch. |