Re: secnews.netscape.com

Jeffrey S. Zarit wrote:
> I have paid my serviceman $100 to get ff 1.5 up and running.
> I will see what happens on Monday when I need to print and email from
> the same page. He informs me that in the past 5 years, he has only been 
> to terminal twice, and that I should stay away from it, if I wish to 
> remain sane.
> jeff
> 
> Leonidas Jones wrote:
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>> Jeffrey Zarit wrote:
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>>> Leonidas Jones wrote:
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>>>> Jeffrey Zarit wrote:
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Then you are misspending a lot of money. Your tech adviser doesn't know 
what he's talking about. (I rewrote that one several times.)

Avoiding Terminal is to avoid a very important tool  Ask any Linux user, 
note OSX is unix based. In Windows, DOS prompts are the equivalent.  If 
you won't use them you are avoiding an important tool built into your OS.

There is a workaround for those who are afraid of Terminal, such as your 
tech adviser.  Find the profile folder on OSX. Mine is at:

Macintosh Hard Drive>>(username)>>Library>>Application 
Support>>Firefox>>Profiles

There will be a folder called xxxxxxxx.nnnnnnn

The x's are a random string, the n's are the name of your profile. 
Simply remove this folder from this location, and save it to your 
desktop.  Open Firefox, and, since the program will not be able to find 
the profile data, Profile Manager will open up. Create a new profile 
with any name other then that of the original profile.  You can then 
Open FF in your new profile and do your testing.

To access your original profile, just return your profile folder to its 
original location. As long as there are two profiles, opening FF will 
open Profile Manager, snd allow you to choose.

In fairness. I woudl rather not use Terminal in either OSX or Linux, and 
I would just as soon avoid DOS command prompts in Windows.  My typing is 
very poor, and one wrong keystroke results in a bad command.

I will note one nice feature of Terminal under OSX:  it allows copy/paste.

Lee