1183152 - selecting "use the selected profile without asking" does the wrong thing when using aurora

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1098986

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Eitan Adler]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
Build ID: 20150710004007

Steps to reproduce:

On a mac (though the issue is not platform specific):
1. /Applications/FirefoxDeveloperEdition.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -P
2. Select "default" (and explicit not dev-edition-default)
3. Ensure that Use the selected profile button is selected
4. [ optional ] Delete the dev-edition-default profile is deleted
5. Close firefox
6a. /Applications/FirefoxDeveloperEdition.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox
OR 
6b. Select the Firefox Developer Edition icon on the dock
7. [optional] /Applications/FirefoxDeveloperEdition.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -P



Actual results:

8. Firefox opens with the "dev-editition-default" profile

9. If 4 and 7 were followed above, additionally note that a new "dev-edition-default" exists


Expected results:

8. Firefox opens with the "default" profile
9. If 4 and 7 were followed above, there should only be one profile called "default".

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Brian, can you look at this or redirect to someone who knows more about this? Maybe this is just a dupe of bug 1098986 (but with much better steps and description, so I'd dupe that bug to this one rather than vice versa.)

Comment 2

[Brian Grinstead [:bgrins]]

(In reply to :Gijs Kruitbosch from comment #1)
> Brian, can you look at this or redirect to someone who knows more about
> this? Maybe this is just a dupe of bug 1098986 (but with much better steps
> and description, so I'd dupe that bug to this one rather than vice versa.)

Forwarding this to Panos since he knows the profile stuff

Comment 3

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

Yes, this is the same bug as 1098986 and others I've see in the past, if memory serves. If one wants the old profile behavior, these are the required steps to restore it:

https://developer.mozilla.org/Firefox/Developer_Edition/Reverting