176961 - Allow multiple open profiles at once.

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, enhancement)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

This is based off bug 97622. Kind of like Windows XP, you should have an 
option to leave the other profile in memory when dynamic switching (instead of 
all the windows being closen, which might not be what the user wants to do).

Comment 1

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

I suggest to either

- mark this as wontfix. That's my personal opinion, but my assessment is, it
would be very hard to do. At least you would try very hard to work around the
crypto library restriction, that only one crypto profile can be open at any time.

or

- make it dependent on a new bug that suggests being able to run multiple
Mozilla processas at one. On operating systems like Linux, this is already
possibly. You can start Mozilla multiple times, each using a different profile.

Comment 2

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

> - mark this as wontfix
Agreed. This is the case for every component which uses profile data, not just
crypto, making this pretty much impossible.

And yes, it is possible to run more than 1 instance of the app as long they're
using different profiles. To do this on Windows, you need to set the env
variable "MOZ_NO_REMOTE" That will allow you to run more than 1 instance at a time.

Comment 3

[K'Trina Medina]

Verified wontfix

Comment 4

[Grace Bush]

*** Bug 197029 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Jon Henry]

*** Bug 205589 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

*** Bug 221045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 249266 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***