Closed Bug 1642845 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Better Profile Integration

Categories

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, enhancement)

enhancement

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1542189

People

(Reporter: CheeseEBoi, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0

Steps to reproduce:

To change profiles, one must go to "about:profiles" and click around in order to switch profiles. A user could also set Firefox to always ask for the user's requested profile on launch too.

Actual results:

This system does not flow well. I have to either launch Firefox from a terminal/run dialog or type "about:profiles" into the url bar. Both of these are huge time wasters and there should be a better method.

Expected results:

There are several ways I can think to improve this. There could be an option in the main menu on the right to open the "about:profiles" window. Or, you could take the Chromium approach and have an indicator that allows you to switch profiles.

Hi Elliot,

I'll add a product and component to this Enhancement.

Thanks for your contribution!

Virginia

Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → Startup and Profile System
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Toolkit

Bugs really need to be distinct actionable things rather than general suggestions. This most closely maps to bug 1542189 though so duping over there.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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