How do I remove any profile information from mozilla based browser

[Mark Hobley]

I am using a Debian (squeeze/testing) system and I am trying to temporarily
remove my profile information from the iceape browser for the purposes of
software testing.

I went to my home directory and renamed the .mozilla directory to
.mozilla.old as follows:

cd
mv .mozilla .mozilla.old

I now restarted the browser, expecting to be asked to create a profile, but
instead I was taken to a blank page. Examining the bookmarks, I notice that
they are my old ones. I would have expected these to have been moved with
the profile. What is going on? Why do I still have residual data left in
the browser?

Mark.

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[Bit Twister]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:31:22 +0000 (UTC), Mark Hobley wrote:

> I now restarted the browser, expecting to be asked to create a profile, but
> instead I was taken to a blank page. Examining the bookmarks, I notice that
> they are my old ones. I would have expected these to have been moved with
> the profile. What is going on? Why do I still have residual data left in
> the browser?

Any time I wonder where stuff is stored I use grep to hunt through my
account for the data. Example for your case:

cd
grep -r part_of_bookedmark_url_here *
grep -r part_of_bookedmark_url_here .???*

[Bill Marcum]

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On 2010-09-16, Mark Hobley <markh...@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> wrote:
> I am using a Debian (squeeze/testing) system and I am trying to temporarily
> remove my profile information from the iceape browser for the purposes of
> software testing.
>
> I went to my home directory and renamed the .mozilla directory to
> .mozilla.old as follows:
>
> cd
> mv .mozilla .mozilla.old
>
> I now restarted the browser, expecting to be asked to create a profile, but
> instead I was taken to a blank page. Examining the bookmarks, I notice that
> they are my old ones. I would have expected these to have been moved with
> the profile. What is going on? Why do I still have residual data left in
> the browser?
>
> Mark.
>

Did you stop the browser before moving the .mozilla directory?
If not, maybe it saved its bookmarks in a new .mozilla. Or you could
start the browser with a command-line option to create a new profile.
Try --help to see what options are available.

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