Issues on startup with profile manager
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(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)
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(Reporter: alecel81, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/26.0 Chrome/122.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
In Windows I have environment variable MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 setted up for use multiple profiles at the same time. When at least a profile of Firefox is already running and I launch Firefox again, holding down Shift key, up to version 130 always started the profile manager, rightly, to allow me to start another profile too.
Actual results:
Now after update to version 131 this behavior has changed. When I launch Firefox from closed it still opens in profile manager (rightly, because I keep unchecked profile manager option "Use the selected profile without asking at startup"). But if at least a profile is running and I want open another profile starting Firefox, holding down Shift key, profile manager does not appear anymore, and instead a new window of the currently running profile opens. For testing purposes I also tried a fresh installation of Firefox 131 in a fresh Windows 11 virtual machine, but the behavior is the same, so I think is not my pc problem.
Expected results:
I don't see any trace of this change in the changelog, so I wouldn't expect this behavior change. Is this an intentional change or a bug?
I am still able to start multiple profiles at the same time, but i must call Firefox profile manager explicitly from the command line with "firefox -p"
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Comment 2•1 year ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Toolkit::Startup and Profile System' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 3•1 year ago
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FWIW I don't think the shift key does anything during startup.
(In reply to Dave Townsend [:mossop] from comment #3)
FWIW I don't think the shift key does anything during startup.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1918195 ***
No, this is wrong. You probably have not set environment variabile MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 (at the system level or the user level is the same) and therefore you probably will not be able to start different profiles at the same time.
To riproduce this issue it is necessary to set the variabile I mentioned above, and you will see Thatcher the Shift key has effect on starting additional profiles in Firefox Version prior to 131.
I hotel someone knowledgeable can evaluate this case
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Comment 5•1 year ago
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(In reply to axel from comment #4)
(In reply to Dave Townsend [:mossop] from comment #3)
FWIW I don't think the shift key does anything during startup.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1918195 ***
No, this is wrong. You probably have not set environment variabile MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 (at the system level or the user level is the same) and therefore you probably will not be able to start different profiles at the same time.
Yes that is what the environment variable used to do. The shift key has no effect (except on windows where it causes Firefox to start in safe mode).
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