Open Bug 1518488 Opened 5 years ago Updated 2 years ago

-reset-profile is not documented as a command line argument (firefox --help or man firefox)

Categories

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

defect

Tracking

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Tracking Status
firefox66 --- affected

People

(Reporter: pascalc, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0 ID:20190107214730

STR:
Type firefox --help in the console or man firefox

ER:
The -reset-profile option should be listed and documented

AR:
No documentation

Bug reported through our enterprise mailing list, the page https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options should be updated when this bug is fixed.

Note that this argument doesn't really do what one may think… it only creates a blank profile (and makes it the new default?), it doesn't migrate the data from the previous profile like the button in about:support does. To get that you need --migration too (plus maybe some environment variables?). That is how our installer invokes it[1]

[1] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/7adb490485eff0783071a3e132005bceeb337461/browser/installer/windows/nsis/stub.nsi#1675,1693

Component: Untriaged → General
Component: General → Startup and Profile System
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Priority: -- → P5
Severity: normal → S3
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