238984 - reopening firefox in linux opens 'select user profile' instead of new window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177996

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ben Dodson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040211 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040211 Firefox/0.8

If I click a .desktop link in gnome or try to run firefox again, I am prompted
with a 'select user profile' and have no way of just opening a new window. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open firefox.
2. Either open firefox again or open a .desktop weblink.

Actual Results:  
Prompted with the 'select user profile' with no ability to simply open a new
window (as in the windows version)

Expected Results:  
At best, just open a new window right away. At least let me choose it as an
option from the select user profile dialog.

Comment 1

[logan]

I'm not familiar with Mozilla/Firefox' behavior on windows, but this has been
mentioned a number of times on the mozillazine forums, I'm sure there's already
a bug filed on this.

Most of the time I've just suggested making a shell script that calls the
firefox/mozilla script, but maybe it's time to change this behavior on unix systems?

---

#!/bin/sh

#PROG=mozilla
PROG=firefox

URL=$1

if test -z "$URL"
then
        URL="about:blank"
fi

if test -z `pidof -s $PROG-bin`
then
        $PROG "$1"
else
        $PROG -remote 'openURL('$1',new-window)'
fi

---

This is a very simple example, surely there are better ones out there.

Comment 2

[logan]

oops, that should be:

        $PROG "$URL"
and
        $PROG -remote 'openURL('$URL',new-window)'

not $PROG "$1" ...

Comment 3

[logan]

dupe of bug 147160? closed as INVALID

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177996 ***