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Posted: **Tue May 28, 2019 3:12 am**

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/27/how-t ... r-profile/

I run into this when setting up Firefox for testing. The about:profiles method in that article works.

On a related note, How does Firefox 67 determine install hash?

Posted: **Tue May 28, 2019 10:22 am**

All existing concepts of profiles, installs (whatever that is), profiles.ini, installs.ini (what is that you ask), DDE, -no-remote, -P, ... are out the door with 67.

Whatever you did know, forget about it, it no longer pertains.
Best I can tell, none of that works - correctly, any longer.

Best I can tell, is there is no cohesive information on the changes made, on those topics (& whatever else needs to be known, understood) to (now) correctly & efficiently use, profiles.

And they made these changes, because "power" users couldn't figure out how to run their Nightlies.
Give me a break!

Firefox 67, multiple user profiles

BTW, all that Brinkmann is doing (in that post) is rehashing what has been "told" (what Mozilla has said), otherwise he knows not.

Posted: **Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:01 am**

barbaz wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 3:12 am On a related note, How does Firefox 67 determine install hash?

This finally got resolved. Due to mozillaZine's future being uncertain, posting the solution here.

henrikoz wrote:Over a year late. Probably too late. I know. But it might help someone.

The second code is working. What is wrong is the assumption that a complete path to the executable shall be provided. Only the folder path is expected.
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$ ./cityhash64 /opt/test/firefox
CA44EF10692C8B1C

The referenced code is this C++ code I posted -

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#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
#include <locale>
#include <codecvt>

// CityHash implementation from Firefox:
// other-licenses/nsis/Contrib/CityHash/cityhash
#include "cityhash/city.h"

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
  if (argc == 2 && strcmp(argv[1], "--help") != 0) {
    u16string u16_conv = wstring_convert<codecvt_utf8_utf16<char16_t>, char16_t>{}.from_bytes(argv[1]);
    const char16_t* a1 = u16_conv.c_str();
    size_t len = char_traits<char16_t>::length(a1) * sizeof(*a1);
    printf("%lX\n", CityHash64(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(a1), len));
    return 0;
  }

  printf("usage: %s <string>\n", argv[0]);
  return 1;
}

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