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How to force Thunderbird to open a Firefox profile of choice

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Bobo-the-Cat
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Hi - I am using Firefox 17 on Centos 6.4. I already know how to get Thunderbird to open a Firefox link!. But it opens the wrong profile. Previous questions/articles suggest editing a default setting in the Firefox profiles.ini (profile.ini?). BUT - I cannot find this anywhere on my entire machine in Centos 6. Please can someone tell me the name of the config file and exactly where I can find it so that I can edit this and so open the profile of choice directly from Thunderbird? If there is no longer a profiles.ini -- how else can this be achieved? Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi - I am using Firefox 17 on Centos 6.4. I already know how to get Thunderbird to open a Firefox link!. But it opens the wrong profile. Previous questions/articles suggest editing a default setting in the Firefox profiles.ini (profile.ini?). BUT - I cannot find this anywhere on my entire machine in Centos 6. Please can someone tell me the name of the config file and exactly where I can find it so that I can edit this and so open the profile of choice directly from Thunderbird? If there is no longer a profiles.ini -- how else can this be achieved? Thanks in advance for any help.

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Wesley Branton
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Firefox should open using the default profile.

Please try changing the Firefox profile that is set to the default.
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Bobo-the-Cat
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Hi, Thanks for reply, but the default is not the one I want. The default is apparently always set to the last profile created, but I want the first profile created to open - so the default must therefore be changed. As stated in my original posting - I believe that this can be changed in a config file of some kind - so can someone tell me where to find this in Centos 6?

cor-el
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You can start Firefox via the profile manager to set the default profile to use when you start Firefox normally and use multiple profiles.
You can set a check-mark on "don't ask at startup" to make Firefox use this profile.
You should use a desktop shortcut to start Firefox with another profile when necessary.

Bobo-the-Cat
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Hi, None of these answers answer this question - which is that it is THUNDERBIRD that is selecting a profile that I don't want started. It makes no difference what check boxes you check or don't check in the Firefox profile editor itself. Checking "don't ask" does nothing here. And yes I am very familiar with how to start any Firefox profile of choice from a deskop- I have several different launchers already on my desktop to do just this.

BUT - when I receive an email in my Thunderbird inbox with a link and when I click this link it does not open the Firefox profile that I want.

OR to put it another way - when I click on a link in an email in a Thunderbird inbox - the wrong Firefox profile is started.

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