1096923 - devedition creates a dev-edition profile even if it's configured to always launch with the profile manager

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect, P3)

Description

[rctgamer3]

I've been running several dedicated profiles, one of which I use for Aurora and have been using for years.

However, (starting with the 2014-11-10 build) on every start, Aurora now creates a "dev-edition-default" profile and clutters the profile manager menu.

Manually deleting the folder and/or the entry from profiles.ini doesn't help, it keeps recreating new default devedition profiles.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

How are you launching the dev edition?

Comment 2

[rctgamer3]

(In reply to Benjamin Smedberg  [:bsmedberg] from comment #1)
> How are you launching the dev edition?

I just launch it normally by launching the Aurora/devedition shortcut ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Aurora\firefox.exe"), which then shows me the profile manager.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Not a high priority, but past do you think this would be easy to fix?

Comment 4

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

Attachment: no-create-without-startWithLastProfile

I think something like this would fix it, but I haven't tested it and I'm not entirely sure it won't result in confusion for other users. Is nsIToolkitProfileService.startWithLastProfile a clear indication that the user is manually managing her profile list?

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

My assumption was that if we're going to show the profile manager, we probably shouldn't create the dev-edition profile. That includes if .startWithLastProfile is false, but also if the browser is launched with -profilemanager.

But that assumption may be wrong: in this same situation, does normal Firefox create a `default` profile before opening the profile manager?