1133731 - failing to target profile with -remote when opened with -no-remote. as -new-instance is not giving us new instance

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1138053

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[noitidart]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150212154903

Steps to reproduce:

Per here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716110#c37

I'm using Windows, I have not tested on other platoforms.

I click the firefox icon, this launches my default firefox profile.

Then I go to run and run firefox.exe -P Dev -no-remote

This launches my second profile.

Then I do firefox.exe -P Dev -remote -new-tab "about:blank"

but it doesnt seem to work :(


Actual results:

Nothing happens


Expected results:

Tab should be opened in the targeted profile.

Comment 1

[noitidart]

Oh my goodness, the -remote was removed in FF36? I cant find the bug for it, but the docs say so: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options#-remote_remote_command

Is there an alternative?

Comment 2

[noitidart]

Btw that explains why it didnt work, ive been using FF36 (im on beta channel) wow so odd why remove it O_O i need it heavily for my addon profilist: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/

Comment 3

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Thanks for reporting this. We are still discussing it in bug 1080319.

Comment 4

[noitidart]

Thanks Liz your comment got me looped into that bug.