[ale] firefox profile directory

[Brian Pitts]

Dow_Hurst wrote:
> Brian,
> I don't see how I can pass that easily without modifying every user's Firefox startup string for the menu entries and icons per machine.  I think getting all the distro's standardized on a single version of firefox would actually be easier than trying to use different profiles.  Firefox sure is restrictive about this behaviour!  I would think larger installations of Linux in heterogenous environments would have to solve this somehow.  Oh well.
> Dow
> 
> 
>> Let firefox use mozilla, but change the profile locations in
>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini
>>
>> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profiles.ini_file
>>

I'm not sure why you'd need to modify the startup script. Each user has
one home directory but needs to have a different profile for each
version of firefox, yes? Make however many profiles you need, set them
up in profiles.ini like

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=0

[Profile0]
Name=Firefox2
IsRelative=1
Path=foo

[Profile1]
Name=Firefox3
IsRelative=1
Path=bar

and the user will be prompted to choose a profile whenever they start
firefox.

-Brian