User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 There should be a command line option (maybe an extension of -p) to load a profile given by a path. This would be useful when running mozilla from a CD say in a public computer from a shortcut. Since this is the first time that mozilla is being run, and since it is not installed it won't know the name of profiles. The paths should also be relative (to the current path) or absolute. Eg:"mozilla.exe -p E:\profiles\MyProfile" or "mozilla.exe -p ..\..\MyProfile", etc Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.

but you still have absolute paths in the profile itself...

This would need support from the profile manager, I suspect...

Is this a dup of bug 157662 - Use relative, dynamically resolveable paths in profile registry [registry.dat]?

re: #1 I don't understand what you mean. I just want to be able to tell mozilla where the profile that I want it to start with is. If all it accepts is a profile name, then it must be setup (using the profile manager). I am saying all it should need is a path to my profile, which could be anywhere. re: #2 Maybe, I don't know. re: #3 I don't think it is, because that bug has to do with where to store and how to access profiles on an installed mozilla. I am mostly concerned with running mozilla using a profile that has not been setup in any way. This way I can carry my profile directory with me and use it on other computers. thanks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 150453 ***