I have lost the profile manager box at log in and computer opens directly to my home page at Yahoo.com making it impossible for my husband to get his home page, bookmarks and soforth.
Yesterday I may have inadvertently hit "do not show at start up". We need to reverse that. I've had some answers and tried every suggestion. My husband went to "live chat" and did not get the problem solved but the connection was lost. He's tried to reconnect but it is now live chat is now closed. We are using a Mac OS X laptop with Firefox 4.0.1. One suggestion was to update Firefox to 5.0 BUT when we tried to do that we were told some add ons such as tool bar and open profile folder will be disabled so we did not update. We have entered into the terminal the several suggested entries in your web sites, but the terminal does not recognize the commands, Might this be an Apple problem and should we call Apple? Please reply to my e-mail.
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You can start the profile manager via the command line (firefox-bin -P) in a terminal window and remove the check mark.
- https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing-profiles
- /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -ProfileManager
Make sure that you close Firefox (Firefox > Quit).
We went to terminal - there was no check mark. I typed in firefox-bin-P twice, once with and once without parentheses. The response was there is 'no such command'.
There needs to be a space between firefox-bin and -P and you also need to add the path.
- /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -ProfileManager
I did exactly what you said. I copied the path from your reply above and pasted it to be sure that I made no errors...the response was still 'command not found.' We found from the firefox website a stand alone profile manager. Do you recommend that we just install that and then import the old profiles into the blank Manager? Can we do that successfully?
Did you check the path of the Firefox application via the finder?
the application path is Macintosh HD>Applications>Firefox. What do I do with it?
None of these suggestions worked. I found the 'free standing profile manager' and downloaded it pursuant to instructions from netscape uFAQ and it worked.