205495 - command line profile switching does not work if there is already an instance running (-P other-profile -mail)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 99828

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex Riesen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20021208 Debian/1.2.7-5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

command line arguments (-P profile) are ignore if there is already a running   
                    
instance (on any Windows afaict, on Linux it works as expected).               
                             This makes it impossible to have two different
profiles open at the same time.                                                
         

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
The first
   mozilla -P profile1 -mail                                                   
                    
will show mailbox of profile1,                                                 
                    
but the next                                                                   
                    
   mozilla -P profile2 -mail                                                   
                   
just show another mail window of profile1.
"-mail" seem to be quite optional.


Expected Results:  
I'd expect to have another instance of mozilla running with different profile
selected.

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

workaround: "set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1" before running mozilla.


this is basically the same as bug 99828, so marking as duplicate, if you don't
agree please reopen this bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99828 ***

Comment 2

[Alex Riesen]

I confirm the workaround worked.
The other bug looks very alike, so i leave this one as duplicate.

Comment 3

[timeless]

vrfy dupe