Re: window.open in 1.5

roN <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:20:48 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Matt Nordhoff wrote:

> On 12/17/05 15:37, J.O. Aho wrote:
>> roN wrote:
>>> J.O. Aho wrote:
>>>
>>>> roN wrote:
>>>>> J.O. Aho wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> roN wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I recently downloaded Firefox 1.5 and recognized, that it can't open
>>>>>>> pop-up windows, why not? It seems like javascript 'window.open' and
>>>>>>> HTML 'target=self' wouldn't work, known issue?
>>>>>>> Thank you for help!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's not that you left the popup blocker on?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> not sure if it's a type, but it should have been target=_self
>>>>> popup blocker off and just a typo...
>>>>>
>>>> Create a new profile and see if you still have the problem, this as
>>>> sometimes old settings from previous versions of the gecko does do
>>>> strange things (I guess thats due badly cleaned code).
>>>>
>>> I actually already created a new one after updating to 1.5.... :(
>>> how do I create a clean new one, maybe i didn't do it 'clean'?
>>> am I able to import all my password & bookmark stuff afterwards?
>> 
>> I was more talking about the source code clean up. If your profile is a
>> new one created for 1.5 then it should work. Think it should be possible
>> from the Tolls menu select "Switch profile" to create a new one. Yes, you
>> can move things afterwards, but think you need to do that manually, just
>> copy over the cookie-file (numeric name), password (think this too had a
>> numeric name), "bookmarks.html". Just see to that the old one will get
>> the name of the ones in the new profile.
>> 
>> 
>>  //Aho
> 
> Tools -> Switch profile is not available in Firefox. You have to open
> the Profile Manager through the command line (./firefox -profilemanager).
> 
> Cookies are stored in cookies.txt.
> 
> Passwords are stored in signons.txt or *.s in an older profile. Copy
> over key3.db and sigons.txt. If it's the *.s file, copy it over and
> rename it to signons.txt.

Ok, thank you. if I open -profilemanager, I can see two profiles, one of
them i created with 'firefox -CreateProfile reg' and the other is, I think,
the one I'm working with. So should I now delete the other one? Or is there
a way to choose  which profile is used?
Thx!
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chEErs roN

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