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firefox loads links from other programs in the wrong profile

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for over a month now firefox has been loading links from skype or an email client in a different profile. i use 2 browsers. firefox and waterfox. they both have profiles in the same profile folder. i never had this issue until a month ago. i'm not sure what i did to mess things up. i wish i knew so i could fix it myself. i've tried reinstall both firefox and waterfox. i also tried making sure the firefox profile doesn't have read only checked. it doesnt but it's a blue box. which means windows doesn't know. thats what i read online. i also tried migrating my profiles and deleting the old ones. this didn't work either. well for both issues of read only marked with a blue square and that firefox opens links outside of itself in a different profile. regarding the firefox and waterfox shortcuts. i use "-P profilename -no-remote" so that i can use both browsers simultaneously. as i said i never had an issue until a month ago. i really wish i knew what i had done! it's such a pain having to wait for firefox to load a whole new browser because it thinks that other profile is the right one. please help me with this. thank you for your time.

for over a month now firefox has been loading links from skype or an email client in a different profile. i use 2 browsers. firefox and waterfox. they both have profiles in the same profile folder. i never had this issue until a month ago. i'm not sure what i did to mess things up. i wish i knew so i could fix it myself. i've tried reinstall both firefox and waterfox. i also tried making sure the firefox profile doesn't have read only checked. it doesnt but it's a blue box. which means windows doesn't know. thats what i read online. i also tried migrating my profiles and deleting the old ones. this didn't work either. well for both issues of read only marked with a blue square and that firefox opens links outside of itself in a different profile. regarding the firefox and waterfox shortcuts. i use "-P profilename -no-remote" so that i can use both browsers simultaneously. as i said i never had an issue until a month ago. i really wish i knew what i had done! it's such a pain having to wait for firefox to load a whole new browser because it thinks that other profile is the right one. please help me with this. thank you for your time.

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Links from external programs are going to use the default browser and the default Profile. Launching by command line as you are doing gets around the default / default 'thing' for opening Firefox or Waterfox from a desktop shortcut.

Other Firefox-based Gecko browsers don't seem to have this problem; apparently Waterfox is the only one to use the same "path-to" the Firefox Profiles. The others create their own folders in AppData and thus have their own set of Profiles.

The default browser can be changed in Windows > Programs and Features, but the default Profile is determined via the profiles.ini file as selected in the Profile Manager. If you view the profiles.ini file in a text editor, the Default=1 line ends the code for the default Profile.

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this helped out that one issue but not the other. even though it has the right profile as default. i cannot load external links due to http://ft.trillian.im/ea3588fd2e86331f73259d483c291917093e89a6/6MPz5QEzdoN94VwwhSY4DvP7VSIy2.jpg

what can i do for this? as i said i tried to make sure the read only box is unselected but the box has a blue box in it. which means windows is not sure. not sure if this is the cause of the issue but it's all i know so far ;/