1062042 - Firefox fails to start if the profile manager is invoked

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Mike Tomko [:kibaurufu]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20140902121319

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start Firefox from the command line with the -ProfileManager argument
2. Select a profile from the list
3. Click 'Start Firefox'

Alternative method (method the bug was originally discovered using):
1. Ensure that the 'Use the selected profile without asking at startup' checkbox in the profile manager has been deselected at some point prior, so that firefox always asks which profile to use on startup
2. Start firefox normally
3. Select a profile to use when the profile manager displays
4. Click 'Start Firefox'


Actual results:

Profile Manager window closes and the firefox process terminates


Expected results:

Firefox should have continued starting using the selected profile and should not have terminated.



Specifying a profile explicitly via the command line or checking the 'Use the selected profile without asking at startup' checkbox cause the 'expected results'.

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

There was a midday build for 35.0a1 that came out after the original day's build for 34.0a1 that made this stop working.

Last build working (34.0a1):
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2014-09-02-03-02-02-mozilla-central/
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c360f3d1c00d

First broken build (35.0a1):
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2014-09-02-12-13-19-mozilla-central/
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/372ce1f36116

I'm running 10.9.4, no relevant errors in Console. The one that does appear incorrectly brought me to bug 804010.

Comment 2

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Simple workaround:
1) select the profile you want
2) select the option to use that profile when nightly starts
3) ... (let firefox crash?)
4) start firefox again

Comment 3

[Alice0775 White]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:

Comment 4

[iamjayakumars]

I had the same issue in MAC.

By holding the "OPTION" key, it opens in safemode and quit the browser and reopened, it opened normally.
Everything is fine now..

Comment 5

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Confirmed 35.0a1 (2014-09-02) Win 7 x64

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Another workaround for now is to run 'firefox -p %profilename%'. That will also let Firefox start successfully.

Comment 8

[iamjayakumars]

Still, facing the issue, if firefox nightly has more than one profile, and ask to choose the profile on startup

Comment 10

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Bug 1060540 has been backed out and new nightlies have been triggered.

Comment 11

[iamjayakumars]

Issue solved with last nightly update

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 ID:20140903072057 CSet: 5e9826980be5

Comment 12

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Confirmed WFM in 35.0a1 (2014-09-03), Win 7 x64

Comment 13

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

In this cases we know which action fixed the problem, so the bug should be resolved as fixed.

Backout:
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5e9826980be5