Keeping profiles separate (Mozilla/SeaMonkey)

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Mr. Uh Clem - 27 Aug 2005 18:40 GMT

I'm ready to take SeaMonkey out for a spin. I figure I'll just
run it parallel with 1.7.11, so no harm if it crashes and burns.
I'll try to do as much browsing and news through SeaMonkey while
keeping primary e-mail in the Suite.

SOOO, my only question is how to keep the two from trying to
use the same profile. If SeaMonkey defaults to a different
profile location than the Suite, I'm good to go, right?
Otherwise, I guess I need to know how to wind up with Mac OS X
(10.4) Dock icons which launch the two suites with the desired
profile specified. I know how to specify target for a Windows
shortcut, just don't know the equivalent under OS X.

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Paul Bergsagel - 29 Aug 2005 02:14 GMT

> I'm ready to take SeaMonkey out for a spin. I figure I'll just
> run it parallel with 1.7.11, so no harm if it crashes and burns.
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> profile specified. I know how to specify target for a Windows
> shortcut, just don't know the equivalent under OS X.

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Mr. Uh Clem - 29 Aug 2005 02:46 GMT

Paul Bergsagel wrote [THANKS!]:

> I believe that the Mac version of Seamonkey will allow you to specify
> which hard Drive/folder you want it to store the profile in. It has been
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> Mozilla profile) just in case something goes wrong and you lose your
> profile. It is better to be safe than sorry.

The questions remain:
1) what is the default path to the SeaMonkey profile
(Is it the same or different from the Suite?)
2) How does one go about creating a Dock or Desktop Icon
which will invoke SeaMonkey with a profile specified on
the command line? Those running different versions of
MS, FF or TB would have to cope with this same issue.

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Moz Champion - 12 Sep 2005 23:01 GMT

>> I'm ready to take SeaMonkey out for a spin. I figure I'll just
>> run it parallel with 1.7.11, so no harm if it crashes and burns.
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> the command line? Those running different versions of
> MS, FF or TB would have to cope with this same issue.

With Mozilla, you simply invoke the profile Manager and create a new one
for use with SeaMonkey

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Mr. Uh Clem - 13 Sep 2005 00:33 GMT

>> The questions remain:
>> 1) what is the default path to the SeaMonkey profile
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> With Mozilla, you simply invoke the profile Manager and create a new one
> for use with SeaMonkey

But that STILL doesn't answer either of the above questions.

If the answer to #1 is 'different', then I'm good to go.
(I can test this myself just by saving my existing Suite
profile and then seeing where SeaMonkey goes by default.)

Otherwise, question 2 remains. How do I make an icon which
invokes SM and specifies a profile as one does in Windows when
one adds a profile switch to the Target in the shortcut's
properties?

I think I may have found an answer at

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20041229181847105

which describes how to invoke Mozilla with the -mail switch
so as to have a clickable Moz Mail icon. Haven't had a chance
to try it yet. (And need to figure out what SM binary would be
best to download. I don't think I've seen any pointers to 1.8
branch builds for OS X, which I take it would be the 1.0
candidates. Maybe I'll take a stab at building it myself. Now
where did I place those round tuits...)

Cheers!

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Moz Champion - 12 Sep 2005 22:58 GMT

Simply create a new profile for SeaMonkey

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Keeping profiles separate (Mozilla/SeaMonkey)