214193 - Please add the "Switch Profile..." option to the Tools Menu

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Ernst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

I use profiles extensively and like the idea of being able to switch profiles
"on-the-fly". Mozilla 1.4 does offer something that will work. They have
included a menu option on the Tools Menu called "Switch Profiles..." (see
screenshot #1). This is great and is exactly what I need. However, Firebird does
not have this option (see screenshot #2) and I have to shut down Firebird and
restart it again with the -p flag. I do not want to use Mozilla because Firebird
is too damn cool in all other aspects, so please don't tell me to switch and use
Mozilla. I am looking to the Firebird developers to just add this piece of code
and this option back into Firebird. Thanks.

Here is a link to the screenshots =
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=13423

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
The "Switch Profiles..." option should have been left in Firebird like it is in
the Mozilla Suite.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Confirming as a new RFE.

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Taking QA Contact as designated owner of Firebird-Menus. Sorry for bugspam.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Actually the DOM Inspector offers this possibility. So it shouldn't be hard work
to move this entry into the main menu.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

taking.

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

After a discussion on IRC it's not clear for me if i should start to implement
this. Has this feature a change to be checked in into the tree? If not i have to
handle this as an extension. Ben, could you give me a statement? Thanks.

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Sorry for spam. Ben, could you give a statement on comment 5 how to handle this
feature?

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Firefox is not going to expose profile manager or profile switching to the user
in the UI. That it exists in the DOM Inspector is a bug, an artifact of dropping
Seamonkey's DOM Inspector into Firefox.  If you'd like to see UI for this, it's
going to be as an extension.

Comment 8

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 263197 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** Bug 266254 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

*** Bug 301121 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Uri Bernstein]

Does anyone know if an extension for this was ever developed?

Comment 13

[Daniel]

15 years old feature request of basic functionality, niiiicee!