Re: 2 questions

In article <[email protected]>, Jerry
Talkington <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

Then how about an OPTION to turn it off? For those of us who are not
developers and have no use for the added "features" that individual
profiles provide. Give the user the freedom to decide. That would be
nice.