Is there a way to disable profile locking in Firefox ? We are using Firefox as a front end to our application, but every time a new instance get’s launched it prompts for a new profile. We would like to open new browsers under one profile all the time.
A fascinating question and one that’s solved by exploring the Profile Manager that’s included as part of Firefox.
To start up Profile Manager in Windows, close Firefox by selecting File –> Exit, then choose Start –> Run… from the Windows START menu. Type in firefox.exe -profilemanager and click OK.
On a Linux systems, launch a command terminal and type in firefox -profilemanager.
On a Mac, well, on a Mac it’s a bit more of a hassle because of how Mac OS X hides the actual application binaries. Let me show you how I got it to work on my own Mac OS X system…
First off, launch Terminal (Applications –> Utilities –> Terminal), then move into the directory where Firefox is located (probably /Applications/Firefox) with the command cd /Applications/Firefox. Now you have to go a bit deeper to get to the correct place, so enter another command: cd Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS. Now, finally, you can enter the necessary command. Here’s all three, to make things a bit clearer:
$ cd Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS
$ ./firefox -profilemanager
Here’s what you’ll see:
The key setting you want has already been checked in this screenshot: Don’t ask at startup.
Check that and you’ll find that you won’t be prompted to select a profile when you start the Firefox browser in the future.
A simple solution, though it’d be nice if Firefox itself could launch the Profile Manager instead of making you jump through all these hoops!
Checking that box makes no difference on my system. The manager still comes up, showing the box as checked.
Now that I’ve disabled the Profile Manager, I want to reenable it. How can I do that? I’m using Fedora Linux.
U Rock dude thanks for being real and not bs’ing