296409 - default profile is created when firefox is launched externally if default profile path is different

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Walt Whitman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

If you create a profile using firefox profile manager and you store the folders
in someplace other than the default locations, everytime firefox is launched
from within another program (i.e. Thunderbird, Outlook Express, etc...)it
creates a default profile in the default location and you loose access to the
profiel you want to use to start firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a profile in firefox and put in a location other than the default (i.e.
c:\firefox profile.)
2.open Thunderbird, or software of your choice, and click on a hyperlink, or in
this specific case Mozilla Thunderbird Help

Actual Results:  
Firefox opens with a default profile and asks if you care to import favorites or
other bookmakrs.  If you select no, then you get a generic default profile.  You
also loose access to the profile you previously created.

Expected Results:  
open firefox with the location of the profile that was setup to begin with.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

This is not a bug. Please see
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries#Profile..2A for more info. about
changing the default location of your profiles folder.

INVALID

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

I was actually wrong with my initial comment, but his WFM on Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+ though. 

Check in the main Firefox profiles folder for a file named profiles.ini. Your
default profile should have the line "Default-1" in it.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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