How to Fix Broken Firefox Profile Manager in Gutsy Gibbon

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2007, November 5 - 1:39am — Webmaster Tips

In Ubuntu's Gutsy Gibbon Release, the Firefox Profile Manager is broken. If you try to run the profile manager with the following command, it just opens up a new Firefox window with the same profile; not the profile manager:

firefox -ProfileManager

There is a workaround that I found on Launchpad -- just use the following command instead:

firefox -a asdf

That will launch the profile manager in Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon. Hopefully they will fix the bug in the next release.

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2007, November 19 - 3:40pm — Terry (not verified)

Thanks, that was helpful.

Thanks, that was helpful. For me "firefox -a asdf" didn't open the profile manager, it opened a new firefox (default profile) on the local machine - i.e the machine on which the shell was running. That was what I needed.

My problem was that under ssh X-windows forwarding "firefox" just opens a new window for any firefox session already running, you have to use either "firefox -P default" or "firefox -ProfileManager" to start a second firefox on the second machine (the one you've ssh'ed too). But since gutsy broke those command lines your work around got me where I needed to get.

Cheers -Terry