So I finally upgraded from Firefox 3 to Firefox 8. I would have upgraded a while ago, I think, but I must be the only person in the world using the Profile Manager to run multiple versions of Firefox (i.e. one with my bookmarks, passwords, links, and plug-ins, and another for my "test" identity for trying out new stuff). I had been able to access the profile manager in version 3 with this completely non-intuitive Terminal command I had to discover by digging around on the Mozilla website:
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -profilemanager
Yeah, really easy to remember, right? So anyway, when Mozilla brought out Firefox 4, this command no longer worked, and they never (not even to this day) bothered to update the website to explain how to use Profile Manager. Go see for yourself.
I stuck with Version 3 all this time (not using Chrome because I like having bookmarks and pages in a sidebar, thank you very much). Then I discovered on some random Mozilla forum that there's a whole new command to launch the Profile Manager. Here it is:
arch -i386 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -ProfileManager
Happy as I am now to use Firefox 8 with both my old profiles, I have to wonder why Mozilla hasn't bothered updating their own help section after five versions of their software?
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