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Firefox spawns new profiles after every reboot of macOS High Sierra...

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...and doesn't honour a default status of the profile set as such earlier. I have to go to profiles preferences and switch the profile I use back to default one, otherwise it selects every new profile created with each launch as its new default.

I use the same browser in Mavericks (OS X 10.9.5) without any issues with regard to starting from the profile set as default. Could it be because of the way High Sierra handles security?

...and doesn't honour a default status of the profile set as such earlier. I have to go to profiles preferences and switch the profile I use back to default one, otherwise it selects every new profile created with each launch as its new default. I use the same browser in Mavericks (OS X 10.9.5) without any issues with regard to starting from the profile set as default. Could it be because of the way High Sierra handles security?

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