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I'm not sure if folks on this list will have heard or not, but post
Firefox 4.0 it is planned to remove the profile manager from Gecko.
From what I've heard this is to do with reducing the complexity of
start-up and hence improving start-up performance.<br>
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However they are "replacing" the profile manager with a standalone
application and they now have a beta version of that application:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://jagriffin.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/profilemanager-1-0_beta1/">http://jagriffin.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/profilemanager-1-0_beta1/</a><br>
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For Thunderbird, it is highly likely that we'll be picking the
removal of profile manager up. From the discussions I've heard
between Firefox and SeaMonkey it sounds like it would be hard to
keep some extensible functionality for profile manager. However
that's still a little way off and we'll have to make the decision on
that closer to when it actually happens and there's more information
available.<br>
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In the meantime I'd <b>strongly</b> recommend giving the standalone
application a go and providing feedback - if there are issues in its
use, then now is a good time to get them recorded so they can be
incorporated early.<br>
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I've just given it a quick run and it seems to work reasonably well,
but check out the comments on the blog and the bug list as there are
various known issues:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=---&query_format=advanced&component=ProfileManager&product=Testing">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=---&query_format=advanced&component=ProfileManager&product=Testing</a><br>
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Mark.<br>
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