Firefox still hands URIs off to other Firefox instances if they're running with a different profile
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(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)
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(Reporter: kershaw, Unassigned)
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See details in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1667468#c18.
This seems like an uncommon edge case, but would be nice to fix.
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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As I noted in the bug comment, I don't understand how this would happen if /Applications/Firefox.app/ and /Users/changkershaw/work/gecko/objdir/dist/NightlyDebug.app/ use different profiles (which is what I'd expect), based on bug 1565597 and the discussion in https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D48742#inline-300614 .
Dave, can you comment?
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Updated•4 years ago
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Comment 2•4 years ago
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I don't understand what this bug is about, can someone explain it?
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Comment 3•4 years ago
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Here is the steps to reproduce this problem.
- Have two firefox instances with two different profiles opened.
- On one firefox app, open a tab and type a ftp link (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org).
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choose an application to open ftp linkdialog is opened on another firefox app.
The expected result should be the selection dialog shown on the firefox app where the ftp link is entered.
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Comment 4•4 years ago
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(In reply to Kershaw Chang [:kershaw] from comment #3)
Here is the steps to reproduce this problem.
- Have two firefox instances with two different profiles opened.
- On one firefox app, open a tab and type a ftp link (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org).
- The
choose an application to open ftp linkdialog is opened on another firefox app.The expected result should be the selection dialog shown on the firefox app where the ftp link is entered.
Does it always show in the same app regardless of which app you enter the link in?
Does it matter which order the apps are opened?
Which of the apps is marked as the default browser?
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Comment 5•4 years ago
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(In reply to Dave Townsend [:mossop] from comment #4)
(In reply to Kershaw Chang [:kershaw] from comment #3)
Here is the steps to reproduce this problem.
- Have two firefox instances with two different profiles opened.
- On one firefox app, open a tab and type a ftp link (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org).
- The
choose an application to open ftp linkdialog is opened on another firefox app.The expected result should be the selection dialog shown on the firefox app where the ftp link is entered.
Does it always show in the same app regardless of which app you enter the link in?
Yes.
Does it matter which order the apps are opened?
No. It always shows on the same app.
Which of the apps is marked as the default browser?
My default browser is safari, but the default app for ftp is Firefox Nightly.app.
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Comment 6•4 years ago
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(In reply to Kershaw Chang [:kershaw] from comment #5)
My default browser is safari, but the default app for ftp is
Firefox Nightly.app.
Is that the app it is opening in? Or if they are the same app is the one it opens in the one running the default profile at the time the link is opened (check in about:profiles).
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Updated•4 years ago
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Comment 7•4 years ago
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Well...I don't know why but I can't reproduce this anymore, so I am going to close this.
In order to figure out steps to reproduce this reliably, I updated the nightly to 85.0a1 and deleted my old profiles, and then created two brend new one for testing. Somehow this problem is gone.
I guess this might be caused by an uncommon combination of profiels and this is not worth spending time to fix.
Sorry for the noise here.
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