Create a friendly user interface to access profile management features (About:Profiles)
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(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)
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(Reporter: unicorn.consulting, Unassigned)
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Currently the only profile management Thunderbird offers is from the Netscape era command line invoked profile manager or about:profiles accessed via troubleshooting information.
A modern application that offers profile management should have a simple user interface offering users the ability to create, manage and change profiles. Pending someone actually creating this long sought feature. Perhaps along the lines of Kaosmos profile switch addon. A user interface allowing the user access from a somewhat less obscure location that Troubleshooting information is needed for About:Profiles.
This is now a mainstream feature with users regularly having to change profiles and manages the one Thunderbird has decided they need post update. Failing to offer a modern access path to this now mainstream feature reflects badly on the product.
Bug 1579725 refers to discussion on the increasingly mainstream nature of the feature.
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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A partial solution is Michel's https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/profile-switcher/. (the follow in to Kaosmos' add-on)
(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #1)
A partial solution is Michel's https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/profile-switcher/. (the follow in to Kaosmos' add-on)
I have no doubt Wayne, but my objective it to promote what is already a core functionality to a point where it is a first class citizen. The profile functionality was a key selling point of Outlook Express in the day, and something Outlook has never mastered beyond the file > open for PST files. I have not used it in years, but it used to be prone to periodic corruption, so not used for much more than backups.
Thunderbirds profile and ability to switch is a distinct and powerful feature that has mouldered as a "power" feature for most of the last 20 years. Really only viable to the few Windows and MAC users that are comfortable with the command line.
Many would benefit from a UI to switch their mail client from Business to Private mode, with the inherent removal of misaddressed mail from the "default" account, and a change to the default address books offered etc. All of these things are filed in Bugzilla as enhancement requests or bugs, I am sure. Having a profile switch setup in the UI would make most of those requests less important, as there would be a simple alternative that generally removed the issues.
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