Re: non function firefox
But it appears to have 20 or more all named by a hash generator. And for
the most part, all identical to the newly generated one.
Sounds as if you already created many new profiles.
Use one of the newly created ones to do your desired shopping activity.
Test all profiles to find out which is your old profile, which you do
not want to lose.
By the way, a profile will not know about the existence of other
profiles and settings, passwords, add-ons, cookies, etc. therein.
Therefore your will need to enter registration data again, if visiting
websites newly with the new profile. Imagine that using a different
profile is like being a new user on a new computer, just that for
convenience you by using profiles have made possible this situation on
your one computer with only one time having installed the firefox package.
By the way, the administration of profiles in Firefox works with random
generated profile names, as you observed it, and they are stored under
these random names in
/home/$USER/.mozilla/firefox/
However, you could give them a more convenient name with the RENAME
function on the about:profiles page and then use your convenient name
in this command:
firefox -p CONVENIENT_PROFILE_NAME -no-remote
Technically, Firefox will continue to use the random name for the
profile storage in /home/$USER/.mozilla/firefox/ , but you anyway should
not manually interfere there. As a user simply use the about:profiles
page, or the Profile Manager as launched by the -p flag not followed
with a profile name, rename there the profiles to your likes and trust
that Firefox manages the rest correctly in the .mozilla folder.
Good Luck! Marco.
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