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* [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/extensions/commandlineoptions.html Command line arguments for the extension manager]. It's used for a number of troubleshooting or system administration tasks such as running in [[Safe Mode]]. | * [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/extensions/commandlineoptions.html Command line arguments for the extension manager]. It's used for a number of troubleshooting or system administration tasks such as running in [[Safe Mode]]. | ||
* | * The ''-profile "path"'' command line argument to specify the location of the profile. It's used to run Thunderbird with the specified profile regardless of whether the [[Profile Manager]] knows about that profile's existence. It's described in more detail in [[Running from a_ USB drive (Thunderbird) | the writeup on USB drive support]] but it does not require a USB drive. Its useful if you're a roaming user or Thunderbird somehow lost track of your profile (perhaps due to your system crashing) and you want to verify the profile is still good before trying to fix the problem. Example: ''Thunderbird -profile e:\my_profile'' will launch Thunderbird with the profile stored at <tt>e:\my_profile</tt>. A quick sanity check is that <tt>e:\my_profile</tt> should contain your prefs.js file. | ||
Example: ''Thunderbird -profile e:\my_profile'' will launch Thunderbird with the profile stored at e:\my_profile. A quick sanity check is that e:\my_profile should contain your prefs.js file. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Revision as of 09:18, 28 November 2005
Thunderbird supports the following command line arguments:
- All of the Mozilla command line arguments that aren't browser specific. Notice the syntax section at the bottom of that writeup. You can use -compose message_options to have it bring up the compose message window and fill in everything for you, but you still need to press the Send button to actually send the message.
- Command line arguments for the extension manager. It's used for a number of troubleshooting or system administration tasks such as running in Safe Mode.
- The -profile "path" command line argument to specify the location of the profile. It's used to run Thunderbird with the specified profile regardless of whether the Profile Manager knows about that profile's existence. It's described in more detail in the writeup on USB drive support but it does not require a USB drive. Its useful if you're a roaming user or Thunderbird somehow lost track of your profile (perhaps due to your system crashing) and you want to verify the profile is still good before trying to fix the problem. Example: Thunderbird -profile e:\my_profile will launch Thunderbird with the profile stored at e:\my_profile. A quick sanity check is that e:\my_profile should contain your prefs.js file.
