FF is opening with my non-default profile
FF is opening with a profile that is not my default profile. How is that even possible and how do I get it to stop? I have the Profile Manager set to open with the one I want to be the default ("do not ask on startup" is checked and my default is highlighted) and it is simply ignoring my choice.
FF 28.0
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You can check the target line in the Firefox desktop shortcut (right-click: Properties) to make sure that nothing is appended after the path to the Firefox program.
Nothing unusual there, the target is
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
Is the other profile present in the profiles.ini file as one of the choices?
Modified by cor-el
Yes it is. But the one opening by default is NOT the one named bz84f5tg.default
If you aren't using the Profile Manager to select a profile then the profile that is marked as default=1 is being used. You can use the Profile Manager to select the preferred profile and tick the box to use the selected profile.
What does "marked as default=1" mean?
What I can tell you for sure is that the profile labeled "default" in the profiles folders is not actually being used as the default.
Read the profiles.ini file in a text program like Notepad.
[General] StartWithLastProfile=0 [Profile0] Name=03-22-11-N IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/ns45iuo6.03-22-11-N [Profile1] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/b3ddbhfr.default-3.6.8 [Profile2] Name=dev-edition-default IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/gz1hmvsz.dev-edition-default Default=1
[Profile2] is the default.