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When Firefox starts, it no longer shows the screen giving the choice of which user is accessing the internet.

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To start Firefox, I click on the icon on the task bar, and it used to pop up a screen which gave me a choice of which of 2 users I want to access the internet, but now it goes directly to my wife's internet page.

To start Firefox, I click on the icon on the task bar, and it used to pop up a screen which gave me a choice of which of 2 users I want to access the internet, but now it goes directly to my wife's internet page.

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Do you have Firefox set up with two different profiles? To have the profile manager appear every time you start up, exit out of Firefox.

Then type or paste the following in the Start menu search box (or the Run dialog) and press Enter to execute it:

firefox.exe -P

If there is a checkmark in the box at the bottom to use the selected profile automatically, uncheck that to make sure Firefox shows the dialog at each startup.

If this is NOT the dialog you are used to seeing, it's possible that you were using an add-on. Do you remember anything else about the screen you used to see?

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Do you have Firefox set up with two different profiles? To have the profile manager appear every time you start up, exit out of Firefox.

Then type or paste the following in the Start menu search box (or the Run dialog) and press Enter to execute it:

firefox.exe -P

If there is a checkmark in the box at the bottom to use the selected profile automatically, uncheck that to make sure Firefox shows the dialog at each startup.

If this is NOT the dialog you are used to seeing, it's possible that you were using an add-on. Do you remember anything else about the screen you used to see?

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Use this link to start Firefox with the ProfileManager. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Look for; Use The Selected Profile Without Asking At Startup and turn it off.

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