289636 - Warning: unrecognized command line flag -ProfileManager

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect, P3)

Description

[Daniel C]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050408 Firefox/1.0+

When starting Firefox with the command-line flag -ProfileManager the Profile
Manager is started, but when the Profile Manager closes, the message in this
Summary is printed to the terminal.

Steps To Reproduce:

1. Start Firefox and the Profile Manager:

/$PATH_TO_FIREFOX/firefox -ProfileManager

2. Select a profile and start Firefox.

Actual Results:

Profile Manager opened. After selecting a profile and starting Firefox the
following message was printed to the terminal: 
Warning: unrecognized command line flag -ProfileManager
Firefox then started with the selected profile.

Expected Results:

Profile Manager should have opened. After selecting a profile and starting
Firefox, Firefox should have started with that profile. No warnings should have
appeared in the terminal.

Using the latest ocean-trunk/ tinderbox build.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

this is from bug 280725
==> xre startup

Comment 2

[Gary Johnson]

You get 
Error: Warning: unrecognized command line flag -console
 .. nsBrowserContentHandler.js Line: 572

with ".. firefox.exe" -console with FF 2.0b1 , but,  I get a console. 

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I'm unable to reproduce this and I believe it was fixed by the patch for bug 303599