272227 - Can't open several windows of the same profile from command line

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Victor Porton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-2)

It is impossible to open several Firefox windows of the same profile from
command line.

For example, I want to have desktop shortcut "firefox -P my about:blank" and
click it as many times as I want to open several Firefox windows. It does not
work :-(

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create profile xxx
2. firefox -P xxx /
3. wait for opening window
4. firefox -P xxx /

Actual Results:  
Step 4 does not work (Profile manager opens and disallows to use profile xxx
second time).

Expected Results:  
Should open two windows (both showing file system root). The windows should be
of the same program instance and of profile xxx.

There are SIMILAR bugs (where people request to run severalinstance of Firefox
of the same profile). That request was unreasonable, but I request a different
thing: to run several WINDOWS (but on instance) of Firefox with the same profile.

Comment 1

[Paul van Schayck]

firefox -remote "openurl(,new-window)"
Will open a new window with the existing profile.
(http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html)

An nice feature would be for the profile manager to give an option to open a new
tab/window with the running profile.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This should work if you use the wrapper script.
That script handles the remote call.

-> invalid