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<title>Managing Profiles</title>
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<h1 id="managing_profiles">Managing Profiles</h1>
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<p>If you use the Internet at home and at work, you may want to have access to
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a different set of bookmarks, preferences, address books, email accounts,
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Sidebar setup, and so on. Similarly, family members may want to share a copy
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of the same browser software but keep their Internet identities separate.</p>
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<p>The Profile Manager lets you create different profiles, each with its own
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bookmarks, preferences, email settings, and so on. You automatically create a
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default profile when you first install your browser software. After you
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create one or more additional profiles, you will be asked which you want to
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use each time you launch the browser.</p>
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<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#creating_a_new_profile">Creating a New Profile</a></li>
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<li><a href="#deleting_or_renaming_a_profile">Deleting or Renaming a
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Profile</a></li>
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<li><a href="#roaming_profiles">Roaming Profiles</a></li>
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<li><a href="#roaming_prefs">Roaming User Preferences</a></li>
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<li><a href="#roaming_item_selection">Roaming User Preferences - Item
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selection</a></li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<h2 id="creating_a_new_profile">Creating a New Profile</h2>
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<p>To create a profile:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the Profile Manager:
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<ul>
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<li><strong>If &brandShortName; is running</strong>: Open the Tools menu
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and select Switch Profile.</li>
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<li><strong>If &brandShortName; is closed</strong>:<span class="win">
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Open the Start menu and choose Programs, then &brandShortName;, then
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Profile Manager.</span><span class="mac"> Hold down the
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<kbd>Option</kbd> key while you're starting &brandShortName; from
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the Finder or the Dock.</span><span class="unix"> Type the following at
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the command line: <kbd>./mozilla -profilemanager</kbd></span></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Click Create Profile, read the Profile description, and then click
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Next.</li>
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<li>Enter a profile name. This can be anything you like, such as your real
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name or a name that's related to what you use the profile for, such as
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<q>School</q>.</li>
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<li>Accept the default location for the new profile, or click the Choose
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Folder button and navigate to the location you want.</li>
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<li>If you have Language Packs or Regional Content Packs installed, click
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Region Selection and choose the Language/Content set you want.</li>
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<li>Click Finish.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>[<a href="#managing_profiles">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
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<h2 id="deleting_or_renaming_a_profile">Deleting or Renaming a Profile</h2>
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<p>You may want to delete profiles that you don't normally use. To delete
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or rename an existing profile:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the Profile Manager:
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<ul>
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<li><strong>If &brandShortName; is running</strong>: Open the Tools menu
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and select Switch Profile. <strong>Note</strong>: You can't delete
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the profile that is in use.</li>
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<li><strong>If &brandShortName; is closed</strong>:
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<span class="win"> Open the Start menu and choose Programs, then
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&brandShortName;, then Profile Manager.</span><span class="mac"> Hold
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down the <kbd>Option</kbd> key while you're starting
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&brandShortName; from the Finder or the Dock.</span><span class="unix">
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Type the following at the command line:
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<kbd>./mozilla -profilemanager</kbd></span></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>To delete a profile, select its name and click Delete Profile. In the
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confirmation box, choose one of the following options:
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Delete files</strong>: Deletes the whole profile folder
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with its stored data (bookmarks, preferences, email
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accounts, and so on). <em>Make sure that you won't need anything
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from the profile in the future before you choose this option.</em></li>
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<li><strong>Don't delete files</strong>: Removes the profile from
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the list of available profiles, but keeps the profile folder. By
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choosing this option none of your profile's stored data will be
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deleted.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>To rename a profile, select its name, click Rename Profile, and follow the
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instructions.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>[<a href="#managing_profiles">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
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<h2 id="roaming_profiles">Roaming Profiles</h2>
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<p>Roaming profiles allow you to store your profile and associated settings on
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a central server or file share. The advantage of this is that your settings
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can follow you from one machine to another. For example, you may wish to use
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&brandShortName; both at work and at home keeping your bookmarks, address
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book, and other settings in sync, or a company may want to allow its
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employees to use their &brandShortName; profile on any computer.</p>
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<p>Roaming profiles can be stored on a HTTP or FTP server. You will need a
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user name and password on that server, so that you can have write access
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to the appropriate directory for storing and retrieving your profile.
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Alternatively, for computers that use a common file share, you can store
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the profile in a local directory using the Copy method.</p>
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<p>Whenever you start &brandShortName;, your profile is downloaded and whenever
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you shutdown &brandShortName;, your profile is uploaded.</p>
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<p>[<a href="#managing_profiles">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
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<h2 id="roaming_prefs">Roaming User Preferences</h2>
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<p>This section describes how to use the main Roaming User preferences panel.
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If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the
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<span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span> <span class="noMac">Edit</span>
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menu and choose Preferences.</li>
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<li>Click on the Roaming User category.</li>
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<li>Select <strong>Enable remote profile storage</strong> to activate roaming
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for the current profile.</li>
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<li>Select one of the following:
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<ul>
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<li><strong>HTTP / FTP</strong>: Choose this if you wish to have the
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profile information copied to a FTP or HTTP server.
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Base URL</strong>: Type the URL of the directory where
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the roaming profile will be stored. This can be an FTP, HTTP or
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HTTPS URL. FTP is probably easiest to set up on a home network.
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In other cases, especially when transmitting over the Internet,
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it is strongly recommended to use HTTPS, because otherwise, all
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your saved passwords and bookmarks (depending on your Item
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Selection) might be read by other people on the same network.
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<p><strong>Examples</strong>:<br/>
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<kbd><https://user@http-server/dir/></kbd><br/>
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<kbd><ftp://user@ftp-server//home/user/dir/></kbd><br/>
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<kbd><ftp://user@ftp-server/dir/></kbd></p>
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</li>
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<li><strong>Username</strong>: Type the user name that will be
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used to access the FTP or HTTP server.</li>
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<li><strong>Save password</strong>: Enable this option to save the
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password for the user name that you have supplied.</li>
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<li><strong>Password</strong>: Type the password for the user name
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that you supplied.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><strong>File Copy</strong>: Choose this if you wish to have the
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profile information copied to a local directory.
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<ul>
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<li>Click <strong>Browse</strong> and select the directory where you
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wish the profile information to be copied to and retrieved
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from.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ol>
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<p>[<a href="#managing_profiles">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
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<h2 id="roaming_item_selection">Roaming User Preferences - Item selection</h2>
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<p>By default, only bookmarks, cookies, and the personal addressbook are stored
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on the roaming server. If all items are greyed out, make sure to have Roaming
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enabled.To enable or disable roaming of other profile informations, follow
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these steps:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the
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<span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span> <span class="noMac">Edit</span>
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menu and choose Preferences.</li>
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<li>Under the Roaming User category, click Item Selection. (If no
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subcategories are visible, double-click Roaming User to expand the
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list.)</li>
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<li>Select the items that you wish to be included in the roaming profile
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synchronization.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>You cannot roam your local email, partly because that would take too long.
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Use IMAP for this purpose.</p>
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<p><strong>Note</strong>: If you are using a slow connection, be aware that
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some files can be quite large, so this will impact your startup time.
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&brandShortName; will have to download locally all of the files you
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selected from the list before being fully functional, and save them back
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to the remote server when you exit &brandShortName;.</p>
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<p>For further information about setting up Roaming Access on a server, see
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the online document
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<a href="http://www.klomp.org/mod_roaming/">mod_roaming - Roaming Access
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module for Apache</a> or
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<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020207131101/http://help.netscape.com/products/client/communicator/manual_roaming2.html">Manually
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Implementing Roaming Access</a>.</p>
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<p>[<a href="#managing_profiles">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
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<p>Copyright © 2003-2005 The Mozilla Foundation.</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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