Re: Keeping profiles separate (Mozilla/SeaMonkey)

Mr. Uh Clem wrote:

> 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.
> 

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
 > a long time since I launched the profile manager. With the Mozilla suite
 > when you launched the profile manager to create a new profile there was
 > an option to specify where you wanted the profile stored. I believe that
 > if you specified a different location for the SeaMonkey profile than the
 > Mozilla profile than each program would use its own profile.
 >
 > Take care with this tip since I haven't tested it out. My best guess is
 > that creating a new profile in a different location will cause each
 > program to use its own profile I am not 100% sure. By creating a new
 > profile with SeaMonkey you may confuse Mozilla and it might want to use
 > the new SeaMonkey profile instead of the old Mozilla profile.  This is
 > unlikely. If it does happen it is easy to fix. To fix it go to your home
 > folder and navigate to the Library folder and then to the folder titled
 > Mozilla. In the folder titled Mozilla you will see a folder called
 > Profile. Move the contents of this folder into the folder titled Profile
 > that you created with SeaMonkey and things will work again.
 >
 > In either case my tip is safe to try, BUT for safety Make a duplicate
 > copy of the Mozilla folder in the folder Library (this backs up your
 > 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.

-- 
Clem
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