Can't run Firefox and Firefox Dev Edition at the same time
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(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)
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(Reporter: michael.weibel, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0
Steps to reproduce:
Since recently (unfortunately can't tell since when exactly because I don't run FF and dev edition at the same time usually) I can't run those two versions at the same time.
It doesn't matter if I open FF first and then Dev edition or Dev edition first and then FF.
When I run the second browser it reports an error (see Screenshot attached).
macOS Mojave 10.14.3
Firefox 65.0.1 (64-bit)
FF Dev Edition (unsure which version, most recent I guess. Info.plist
reports 66.0 and CFBundleVersion 6619.3.4
)
In FF dev edition preferences I have checked "allow to run both at the same time" (unsure how it's called now, but I guess you know what I mean)
I just opened now about:profiles
in FF and it reports that I have two profiles but the dev edition profile seems to be in use by FF. I guess this is the issue? It should use the default
profile instead of the dev edition
profile.
I can set this one as the default again and can try again if you tell me to, but don't do it now in case you want to figure out more things without changes :)
Comment 1•6 years ago
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Ok let's get some information...
Can you attach a copy of ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/profiles.ini to this report?
Can you also open each browser individually, go to about:profiles and tell me what the name and root directory of the profile listed as in use is there?
Also just to check, have you run Firefox Nightly on this computer at all in the past month or so?
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Comment 2•6 years ago
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Comment 3•6 years ago
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FF: ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/ee1or41h.dev-edition-default-1551085114792
Dev Edition: !/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/ee1or41h.dev-edition-default-1551085114792
-> both use the same profile as suspected.
I'm unsure how that has happened. I recently did a refresh of FF dev edition as I had issues with the 1Password browser extension. Maybe that had some impact?
FF Nightly: No I haven't in a long while. It's also not installed anymore :)
Thanks for the help!
Comment 4•6 years ago
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(In reply to michael.weibel from comment #3)
FF: ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/ee1or41h.dev-edition-default-1551085114792
Dev Edition: !/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/ee1or41h.dev-edition-default-1551085114792-> both use the same profile as suspected.
I'm unsure how that has happened. I recently did a refresh of FF dev edition as I had issues with the 1Password browser extension. Maybe that had some impact?
Aha! That is what happened here. You've hit bug 1367391 unfortunately, Release would have switched to dev-edition's profile at that time. The old release profile should still be there if you wanted to switch back to it in about:profiles.
Sorry about that, I think we've got that bug fixed in current nightlies.
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Comment 5•6 years ago
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Ah I see. Thanks!
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