Profile management in Pale Moon Portable (profiles storing locally)

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Profile management in Pale Moon Portable (profiles storing locally)

Unread post by rhinestonejedi » 2021-11-02, 14:57

It appears profiles, if in use, are still stored on the local machine.

This also prevents starting a specific profile via command line from working, apparently. See attached image - opening that just results in the default profile opening anyway.
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Re: Profile management in Pale Moon Portable (profiles storing locally)

Unread post by Moonchild » 2021-11-02, 15:09

The portable is not meant to be used that way. Profile management, system integration, etc. are not its intended use.
Please go and re-read http://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml# ... e_versions

If you want to use multiple profiles, use multiple copies of the portable. You can run them side by side.
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Re: Profile management in Pale Moon Portable (profiles storing locally)

Unread post by rhinestonejedi » 2021-11-02, 15:32

Okay, got it. I don't need any system integration at all- I just have a few different profiles to use. If there's no way I can override the default profile path, then I'll just use multiple installations. The only real drawback to that is having to update multiple times instead of once.

Thank you;

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