Setting the default profile in Thunderbird

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I have two Thunderbird profiles, and my profiles.ini looks like this:

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=e17id64t.default

[Profile1]
Name=custom
IsRelative=1
Path=l48ojhgn.custom
Default=1

Profile1 is marked as default, but that is only because it was started last. If I start Profile0, it will became the default instead.

How can I set Profile0 to be always the default profile, regardless of which profile was started as last time?

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If your main concern is which profile will be used when mailto link is clicked, then the solution is to always start the default profile normally and launch all other profiles with the -no-remote option.

The way it works is that if you start a profile with the -no-remote option, firefox does not see it that it is running. Firefox will only see the default instance (which was started without -no-remote)

This is all explained in this MozzilaZine Article

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