firefox is making me scream

[tommo123]

until tonight, every time i opened firefox i had a window to choose various profiles i'd create for various things (due to firefoxs memory issues). i haven't selected the option to "always use this profile" or whatever it's called but it's just gone.

opens a plain new profile. my stuffs there under local/roaming firefox just refuses to let me open it - for the most part. now if nothing else is open and i try it shows me the options but fails to let me open another concurrent window.

it's really weird and i cant see an option in firefox for this.

originally i enabled it by creating a shortcut to the exe:
firefox.exe -P "test" -no-remote

still fine on my laptop. wtf!

at least i have FEBE backups of everything anyway just in case

 

[Elixer]

Does it show the profiles when you do firefox.exe -p in a command window?

 

[tommo123]

as in cmd prompt?

dont know how, but this morning it's working again, so thank god for that!

as good as febe is, i wish there was a proper tool for backing up profiles.

better than chrome though "google chrome backup" doesn't do a damn thing but give errors or write a file that can't then be restored. i mean opening that program starts off saying "new version of chrome, want to upgrade?" then goes onto say "you dont have chrome installed".

sorry, had to rant

 

[Hugh Jass]

It sucks that the once awesome Firefox has become such a bitch to use over the last several versions.

It's gotten so I can't find a browser that works exactly how I like it to and is at the same time 100% stable.

 

[tommo123]

it's why i'm trying to get backups working properly. firefox i'm more of less there with FEBE. but the one (GBM i think) for chrome sucks donkey balls.

wished opera never turned crap.

 

[Iron Woode]

in win8: go to windows system in start menu, all programs and choose run.

type: firefox.exe -p

hit ok and see if that works.

alternatively, right click the firefox shortcut and add the -p to the program location under Target.