1689793 - Profile created in Thunderbird's "About Profiles" page is automatically set as the default profile

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[EarlgreyTea]

Attachment: Screenshot of creating a new profile in "About Profiles"

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Start Thunderbird.
2. Open Help > Troubleshooting Information > about:profiles
3. Create a new profile named "test.release".

Actual Results:

The profile "test.release" will be added and set as the default.
The next time Thunderbird is started, it will use this profile.

Expected Results:

The profile "test.release" will be added, but the default profile will not be changed.

Up until Firefox 66 and Thunderbird 66, creating a profile did not set it as the default profile.
User may just want to create a few profiles, or may want to temporarily launch a test profile in a new process.
Such users do not want the default profile to be set automatically.
Bug 1556603 has already been issued, but since there seems to be no movement, I have reported it as a Thunderbird bug.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

confirming - I remember experiencing this as well. Let's keep this bug open, dependent on bug 1556603 (kinda sad).