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 * Ability to make MAIN profile.
 ** If firefox configured to use MAIN profile, then it gets policy sets from this profile (so, user can't make "not allowed" changes, until he switch off using of MAIN profile in browser (so, needs ability for administrators to block switch off MAIN profile))  Example: all default sets getting from MAIN profile and then firefox apply user settings, if this allowed by the MAIN profile for this group of sets)
+== Make it harder for users to accidentally switch to a new profile ==
+Users (especially on Mac) are likely to see the profile manager for the first time when they run into a locked profile (either due to a stuck lock, or, on Mac, multiple copies of Firefox).  They may tend to work around this problem by creating a new profile (not knowing what creating a new profile actually does).  Then when they start Firefox with their new profile, they've lost their bookmarks, history, preferences, etc., and nothing ever shows them the Profile Manager dialog again once the lock condition goes away.
+There are a number of ways to solve this:
+ * don't show the profile manager in response to a profile being locked if there's only one profile
+ * by default, show the profile manager if there are multiple profiles
+ * remove the entire concept of multiple profiles (since the OS should have a concept of users).  This may be the best, since the testing need for multiple profiles has been relieved by "-profile".  -[[User:Dbaron|David Baron]] 23:54, 26 October 2006 (PDT)