253513 - Firefox does not start if more than one profile is referenced within profiles.ini

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 250680

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Confirmend with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7)
Gecko/20040728 Firefox/0.9.1+

I can see this bug since a couple of days. I didn't have tested all nightly
build but i know that the last one i used is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040719 Firefox/0.9.1+ and this build is working.

Looking into my profiles.ini shows following entries:

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=0

[Profile0]
Name=Standard
IsRelative=0
Path=X:\Anwendungsdaten\Firefox

[Profile1]
Name=Test
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/test
Default=1

When i remove Profile1 manually from this file and start FF again, than it is
working. So i copied the data of profile0 to profile1 to test, if we have a
problem with 'IsRelative=1' but that's not the problem. It seems that we have a
regression here.

Comment 1

[u60234]

I see it too (in zip builds, installer build seems to work). But I don't think
it is the number of profiles that is the problem here. Firefox starts if I have
StartWithLastProfile=1 in profiles.ini, and I can also start with the -p
"profile" switch. So it looks like a problem with the Profile Manager.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 250680 ***