266254 - Profile Manager Functionality Should be accessible from the Menu bar and not only through command line startups

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 214193

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[neill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

The profile manager, as far as I can find, is only accessible through the
command line option -P. This is counterintuitive to users of Mac's who are not
Unix Savvy. 

If they are using Firefox over a network and are logged in to two machines, then
Firefox forces them to create a second profile. When it comes to swapping back
to a previous profile however, it is not clear where the profile manager is.
There is no help in the help documentation, and it was only after a search on
the web that I found what to do.

So I would like to suggest that access to the Profile manager is also made
available on the Tools Menu bar, so that non-unix Mac users will be able to
find what to do. And also that a section in the help is added too describing
profiles and the profile manager, why they exist, and why you cannot have
two copies of the same profile open at the same time.

I hope this hasn't already been discussed - I couldn't find anything about
it after a long search. 

Great product! Trying to encourage others to make the switch!

Regards

Neill Jones

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

see bug 214193 comment 7.

notice that as a mac user, you can access the profile manager by hitting the 
option key when you're launching firefox/tbird.

Comment 2

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

oops, duping.

Comment 3

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214193 ***