Re: 2 questions

Jerry Talkington wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:27:19PM -0400, Homer J. Fong wrote:
>>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.
> 
> 
> What is it that you want the option to remove?  With only one profile,
> you should never be prompted to select a profile, so it doesn't even
> appear that multiple profiles are possible.  You have to manually create
> additional profiles and enable the profile manager, so that's not a
> problem for people who want just one profile.
> 
> There will probably never be an option to remove the
> <profilename>/<random>.slt/ directories, since changing that would
> introduce a considerable amount of coding effort, with a high
> probability of unstableness, and no benefit.  Most people don't go
> poking around in the profile directories, and those who do generally
> have more than one profile.
> 
> If there is some point that I'm missing, then please elaborate, because
> I'm at a loss as to why you'd want to remove functionality that is
> invisible to the typical end user anyway.
> 

I *think* what Homer's problem is one of two things...

1.) has more than one copy/version of the Suite, Firefox or Thunderbird installed and launches the 
the other copy while one is already running... prompting the Profile Manager

or most likly...

2.) would like to see a flat profile... a la camino or safari... so the Mozilla folder (or 
Firefox/Thunderbird) and directly inside that folder are all the prefs... basically neglectiong all 
of the security that the *.slt provides...