Re: 2 questions

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:30:55AM -0500, Homer J. Fong wrote:
>
> 2. Will Mozilla ever ditch the "user profile" model? With OS X, and
> everyone having an individual account, this is no longer necessary. It
> also makes it a pain to have a "master profile" on a master disk image
> (configured with all the bookmarks and preferences you want). When the
> image is copied to the client computer, it insists on making a new user
> profile. All the other browsers don't have this problem.

No, multiple profiles are very necessary.  Users with one profile
(should) never get prompted to select a profile, so it's seemless to
them.  However, multiple profiles are useful for many things such as:

a) Moz Developers.  They can try out code fixes, etc. without blowing
away their day to day browsing preferences.

b) Themers.  They can test out new themes in a clean profile, to make
sure they work.

c) Extension developers, for testing.

d) People using VPNs to access private lans via the Internet (e.g. I
have separate profile for browsing internal work sites from my
house/laptop via a proxy, but I don't want Internet traffic to go
through the work proxy.  A proxy.pac isn't possible, because private IP
address and names conflict on my home LAN conflict with work.)

I'm sure there are plenty of other uses that I haven't listed, but there
really is no compelling remove this functionality.  If it's not seemless
to a user with a single profile, then that's a bug.

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