1070770 - undocumented command line option

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect, P5)

Description

[mathieu.tarral]

Attachment: tmp1.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 2014091200

Steps to reproduce:

firefox --help


Actual results:

the option -profile is not listed


Expected results:

the option -profile <path> should be listed
I was looking for a way to load a new profile in firefox which is not located under .mozilla/firefox

I tried to use "firefox -new-instance -P /path/to/my/123456.developer" but it didn't work because firefox expects a profile name (here "developer") and it expects it to be under .mozilla/firefox

I was lucky to find this page :

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp#1500

The commandline options are documented here : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Attachment: one line patch that documents the profile option

Comment 3

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/ab566bc21805

Comment 4

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ab566bc21805