Closed Bug 169934 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Selection of profile from the command line doesn't work

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Cmd-line Features, defect)

DEC
OSF/1
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 98577

People

(Reporter: shanmu, Assigned: law)

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If I select the profile from the command line the profile is not read.
I get the Profileselection window to select the profile.
Mozilla's help lists the following 

 -P <profile>            Start with <profile>.

To reproduce this problem start mozilla with

mozilla -P "Profilename".

Even though the profile name is specified Mozilla will bring the Profile
selection window.

I hope this is a generic UNIX problem.
Attached patch Patch Splinter Review
BUG VERIFICATION ON HP-UX and LINUX
Tested -P flag with Mozilla 1.1 on HP-UX 11.00 (PA) and Linux.  Works fine,
brings up the browser with the specified profile.  Also worked with Netscape 7.0
on PA, IPF, and Linux.

Note: I did get the "Select Profile" screen when I mistakenly typed the
screenname, rather than the profile name, for my account.  Also, when I
miss-typed the profile name.
Did it read the preferences file "prefs.js".
One way to check is add the following lines to your
prefs.js under .mozilla/"Profilename"/***.slt/prefs.js

prefs.js:user_pref("general.startup.editor", true);
prefs.js:user_pref("general.startup.mail", true);

The next time when you start the browser mozilla should bring
a navigator, composer and a mail client. In my case it brought
up only the Navigator window ignoring the prefernces set in my 
prefs.js file.

(Rather I should have said in my earlier report that 
mozilla doesn't read the preferences file)
That sounds kind of like bug 98577   

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98577 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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