Closed Bug 245070 Opened 21 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Ability to Switch Profiles While Running/Remember Last Selected or Default Profile on Launch

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: grant.abraham, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Thunderbird should be able to manage profiles like Microsoft's Outlook Express handles "identities". That is, one should be able to switch profiles from within an already-launched process of TB (perhaps from a File|Switch Profiles menu). Launching TB with no specified profile should launch the default profile or the last selected profile. When programs cannot ask which profile to use to send mail from, they should use the default profile. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I think this should be done until 1.0 too!
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0?
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0? → blocking-aviary1.0-
How exactly does one get this confirmed? I would like to vote for it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Confirmed
I would like to vote for it too.
There still is no option to vote for this bug. My wife, daughter, and son all have Thunderbird profiles, and it would be nice if we could switch to them without having to shut the thing down completely. Also, since Mozilla Mail has this capability, it seems to me that it would be fairly simple to add the code to Thunderbird -- at *least* as an extension. Anyone there?
I would vote for this bug because outlook express has this feature and I think that it's a shame that thunderbird still doesn't have it. Especialy because the suite already has this feature. BTW: Maybe it helps if you set the severity to "major" ;-)
I would like to vote for it too.
Starting Thunderbird with the -P switch should also open a new instance if there is not already an instance running with that profile. See bug #277460.
When will this annoying bug be fixed??
Flags: blocking-aviary1.1?
we won't be adding dynamic profile switching to thunderbird.
Flags: blocking-aviary1.1? → blocking-aviary1.1-
Ah. Thanks for your candor; sounds like it's time to start thinking about switching back to Pegasus, because this particular behavior is amateurish. It's simply ridiculous that trying to run Thunderbird with a different profile switch on the command line does nothing -- no error message, even -- when an instance is running. I like to recommend open source solutions when possible, but this confirms the prejudices of closed-source advocates towards these projects.
(In reply to comment #10) > we won't be adding dynamic profile switching to thunderbird. Reason??
*** Bug 324419 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 362370 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #10) > we won't be adding dynamic profile switching to thunderbird. > I don't understand that decission. Did this option cause problems in the Mozilla Suite? If not, please reconsinder this decission.
(In reply to comment #4) > I would like to vote for it too. > Just follow the link on to. It is towards the bottom of the first page when looking at this.
Wasn't there an option in the Mozilla suite to switch profiles while the application was running? I think it was under "Tools." I agree that it gets annoying to have to quite TB, start up the profile manager in order to use a different profile.
(In reply to comment #10) > we won't be adding dynamic profile switching to thunderbird. > What is an alternative to profile switching? I have two profiles but need to change pretty often from one to the other. Is the "-P" an option? I read somewhere that it could cause problems (corruption of mail data) if one opens the same profile more then once, is this true? Wenrer
QA Contact: general
Assignee: mscott → nobody

We now have launch profile in a new instance of Thunderbird from About profiles. Would that be sufficient to close this bug?

Yeah I think that is all for this bug.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME

Well, better late than never!

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