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* Matthew Toseland <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-03-25
19:41:59]:<br>
<br>
> Sorry, I'm the idiot who decided to create a firefox profile. I
was simply<br>
> trying to avoid some major performance issues we have because the
default<br>
> settings are not good for Freenet, and asking users to change
them globally<br>
> also sucks.<br>
><br>
> Freenet has not destroyed any data, it has simply created a
second profile. It<br>
> launches it with -no-remote so it shouldn't be remembered by
firefox, but<br>
> somehow in your instance it was ... what you have to do is open a
command<br>
> line (start, run, type cmd), cd to the directory firefox is
installed in,<br>
> e.g.:<br>
> cd c:\program files\mozilla firefox<br>
> Then:<br>
> firefox -ProfileManager<br>
><br>
> You will then be presented with a list of installed profiles,
including one<br>
> called default and one called freenet. Click on the one called
default and<br>
> then click on the button to start firefox using that profile.<br>
><br>
> Sorry.<br>
><br>
> Matthew Toseland,<br>
> Chief Developer for Freenet on behalf of Freenet Project
Incorporated.<br>
><br>
> PS support@freenetproject.org is usually the right place for
these sorts of<br>
> issues.<br>
><br>
> To CC's: WTF are we going to do about this?<br>
<br>
First of all ask the user about the exact firefox version he is
using<br>
and the output of the "about:buildconfig" page.<br>
<br>
Then determine whether his browser has profiles compiled in or not...
If<br>
not we would also like to know where he got his browser from.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>NextGen$</blockquote>
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<div>I looked in about:buildconfig for my copy of Firefox (the latest,
2.0.0.13) but I don't see anything that looks like a profile in the
Firefox Compiler flags:</div>
<div><font color="#000000">-Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith
-Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
-fpascal-strings -no-cpp-precomp -fno-common
-I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/Developer/Headers/FlatCarbon</font>;</div
>
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<div>or Configure arguments:</div>
<div><font color="#000000">--target=i386-apple-darwin8.7.0
--with-macos-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
--enable-application=browser --enable-update-channel=release
--enable-official-branding '--enable-optimize=-O2 -g' --disable-debug
--disable-tests --enable-update-packaging --enable-static
--disable-shared --enable-svg --enable-canvas</font>?</div>
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<div> Am I looking in the right places?</div>
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<div>Mel Charters</div>
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