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I am trying to start the profile manager for Firefox running the following command in a terminal:
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin --ProfileManager
But this opens just Firefox. Probably a new session, but I'm not sure. It surely does not start the Profile Manager. Is there anything else I can try to start the Profile Manager?
macOS Mojave, Firefox 72.0.2
I had the same problem ! I downloaded version 3.5 for mac & it works fine for me now.
Please Take Note of following.
Even in FireFox version 3.5, I faced a strange behavior.
When I try to open a new tab sometimes it goes adding new tabs in bulk, I mean infinite loop of adding new tab. In that case, I used to quit fireFox by force. ( force-Quit ).
It happens quite frequently, even though I couldn't determine the exact steps to produce that bug. So, If you face same kind of behavior, please let me know by comments.
The issue isn't with Firefox or Apple. It is Java itself that is blocking the application.
The way to fix this is to add the website to the Exception Site List within Java Control Panel.
If you close and reopen Firefox now it should prompt you to "Allow artist.info to run 'Java Applet'?" and if you click allow it should now load the applet.
If you've tried this and it hasn't worked, something might be remembering a previous decision. Try clicking the "Restore Security Prompts" button at the bottom of the Security tab in Java Control Panel, or clicking Firefox's plugin icon in the left corner of the address bar (the one that looks like a Lego brick) to get it to allow the Java plugin.
Adding the site to the exception list, closing and reopening Firefox worked for me with Firefox 37.0.2 on Yosemite 10.10.3 and Java 1.8.0_45.
Best Answer
To start the Profile Mnager, Firefox must not be running. Also, the command to start Profile Manager from the command line is:
Note, that it's only one dash preceding the option and you don't need to use
firefox-bin. You can also use the short hand version,firefox -Pas well.Mozilla has excellent documentation on its Command Line Options.