28815 - By-pass Profile screen(s) at FIRST START-UP

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Brian King [:kinger]]

Platform: ALL
OS: ALL

This is a feature request (I'll write it myself if you point me in the right 
direction).

It would be nice if, on first starting Mozilla, that the user could be shielded 
from entering any profile information, and a default one is set up.  The 
user could be called 'default' or similar.  This could be made a preference, 
just a case of editing a file (e.g. all.js) before startup.  This would be of 
benefit where it will be guaranteed that there will be only one user EVER using 
the s/w on a particular machine.  It is also useful for third party apps using 
Mozilla that need to by-pass this.

Comment 1

[selmer (gone)]

This is already available.  Many people complained when we made that the default 
behavior for mozilla.  Forwarding to Bhuvan to get the exact name of the pref in 
here before closing WORKSFORME...

Also, you can use -CreateProfile to create a profile and -P to run with that 
particular profile to solve some of the related problems.

Comment 2

[racham]

If you are referring to migration of 4x profile

Here is the scenario :

You need to start with mozilla -installer.
Set the following pref in all.js to false.

profile.confirm_auotmigration.

You will go into browser directly with the migrated profile.
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If you are referring to 5.x createProfileWizard screen, it is considered as an 
enhancement at this stage.

You can always use -CreateProfile to create a profile and to launch into the 
browser without facing nay dialogs.

mozilla -CreateProfile "<profile name>"
mozilla -CreateProfile "<profile name> <profile directory>"

Comment 3

[racham]

*** Bug 27611 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[racham]

Fixed. A default profile (named 'default') gets created if no profiles exists. 
User is launched into the browser directly in that case.

Comment 5

[Brian King [:kinger]]

Is this 'default' profile set up by setting a preference?  How exactly is it 
activated?

Comment 6

[Grace Bush]

activated by having 0 Mozilla profiles and 0 Communicator 4.x profiles- install 
app and you will launch with a default profile

verified on builds 2000051109M16