Re: secnews.netscape.com

Leonidas Jones <[email protected]> Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:13:54 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.macosx
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <dmt8ri$t2l2__8953.58367492936$1133651887$gmane$org@ripley.aoltw.net>
Jeffrey Zarit wrote:
> Leonidas Jones wrote:
> 
>> Jeffrey Zarit wrote:
>>
>>> My ISP is of no help
>>> and this is all messed up
>>> and I do not know of how
>>> to get help.
>>> I have posted to several groups,
>>> and all I have been told was to post to
>>> the CORRECT GROUP, which I cannot post to.
>>> There are instructions for ff 1.5, however,
>>> I CANNOT GET THEM TO WORK .
>>> There are instructions to set up a new profile,
>>> but I am unable to set up a new profile.
>>> I set up a new profile for secnews.netscape.com
>>> and now every time I go to a group, I have to subscribe.
>>> I do not understand any of this. AND I CONTINUE TO GET
>>> MORE AN MORE FRUSTRATED.
>>> CAN ANYONE HELP ME?
>>> [email protected]
>>> 2 December 2005
>>>
>>
>> Jeff, we will get this to work:
>>
>> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager#Mac_OS_X
>>
>> Grab a breath, have a beer, or a coffee, what ever, take a look at the 
>> link for Profile Manager.  I'm on the weekend, I'll help out. ;)
>>
>> Lee
> 
> OK, I did that, I printed the instructions from the above link, but 
> nothing happened. Was something supposed to happen?
> I wnt to Applications/utilities/Termninal and typed in the information:
> Applications/firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-profilemanger and hit 
> return. Nothing happend.
> 

Note daa's post, the space before -profiemanager is important. Here is 
the corrected command:

/Applications/firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -profilemanager

It works from here.

Make sure, as the directions say that FF is not running.

Lee