249266 - Impossible to launch multiple instances which uses different profiles using same account

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176961

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[John Olsson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

Me and my girlfriend both use Mozilla mail to read our email. We each have our
own profiles with our own configuration, bookmarks etc. When one of us is logged
in and have the browser up and running and the other also wants to check the
mail we have to first close down mozilla and launch it again using the other
profile.

I want to be able to launch multiple instances of Mozilla, where each instance
uses a different profile (thus I am NOT talking about multiple processes using
the same profile).

I have tried using the command line switch "-SelectProfile", "-ProfileManager"
and "-p <profile name>" like this

F:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla>mozilla.exe -SelectProfile

F:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla>mozilla.exe -p John

F:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla>mozilla.exe -ProfileManager

and all of the above examples results in the same thing. The command line
switches are simply ignored and I just get a new Navigator window as if I had
pressed "Ctrl-N" in Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla and make sure there are more than one profile defined
2. Start another instance of Mozilla which uses another profile than the one
currently used in the already running Mozilla


Actual Results:  
Identical to as if I pressed "Ctrl-N" in the running Mozilla. 

Expected Results:  
Starting another instance of Mozilla which used the specified profile (which is
not the same as the already running Mozilla uses).

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

see bug 176961 comment 2.

I think what you really want is the user profile switching "on the fly", located
 under "Tools". Try it - it makes it easy to switch back and forth between profiles.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176961 ***

Comment 2

[John Olsson]

> I think what you really want is the user profile switching "on the fly", located
> under "Tools". Try it - it makes it easy to switch back and forth between 
> profiles.

No, that is definitly not what I want. I have tried that. What happens is that
the browser is restarted and all open tabs are removed and so on. I want to be
able to have two instances of Mozilla running at the same time (using two
different profiles).

However setting the environment variable MOZ_NO_REMOTE to 1 did the trick. :)

Could this behaviour not be the default behaviour when you explicitly ask for
either choosing a profile or for a specific profile?