On Thu, October 30, 2008 09:41, James B. Byrne wrote: > Thank you very much for the hint. I went to the Mozilla Firefox Help page > and read up on this. However, when I run: > > # firefox -ProfileManager > > All I get is a new Firefox window with all of the bookmarks and history of > my standard user profile. Am I missing something here? > If the initial condition is that no instances of Firefox is running then "firefox -ProfileManager" will indeed bring up the Profile Manager and allow one to chose which profile to use or manage profiles. However, that is the only circumstance where this occurs. Once a Firefox instance is running subsequent invocations skip the profile manager and start a new window with the same profile as the first. Is this intended behaviour? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3