I do have separate profiles.
I don't get it. There is a Donzilla program in Program Files| Hardware... which has a defaults/profile, with the search.rdf of 2Kb, but no prefs.js .
The files in the profile and the donzilla program show three search engines listed, i.e. Google, Askjives and dmoz. What from where to where, and what?
I was not about to sit and wait. so, I uninstalled Donzilla, and use a cleanup utility, leaving the profile the way it was.
And, things happened, pretty much as I had them before, in localstore.rdf and prefs.js, and, i have back all the nine extention which I had removed.
The view is still messed up, with the Sidebar coming up again after each startup, as well as the Message Pane, in mail. I can tolerate the extra extention, but not this extra stuff. All I had removed were items with Adblock and Googlebar. And, yes, I still do not have any choice for the Search engines, anywhere.
So, I will wait, to see if you have any other idea.
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