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?
Firefox 67 sometimes ignores existing profile
Firefox 67 sometimes ignores existing profile
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
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Re: Firefox 67 sometimes ignores existing profile
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.
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.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball NoScript FlashGot AdblockPlus
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Re: Firefox 67 sometimes ignores existing profile
This finally got resolved. Due to mozillaZine's future being uncertain, posting the solution here.barbaz wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 3:12 am On a related note, How does Firefox 67 determine install hash?
The referenced code is this C++ code I posted -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
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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;
}
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
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