299552 - HTML files not opening when...

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 296482

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Emanuel Gaspar]

HTML files locally stored in the computer (AMD Athlon XP running Windows XP
Service Pack 2) do not open when Firefox is set to launch with the "Choose
Profile" prompt.

Action that leads to error:
 - Make sure Firefox prompts you to choose a Profile each time you open it.
 - Open any html file you may have in your computer using Firefox.
 - Choose your Profile.
 - Watch the computer as the file is not opened.

Comment 1

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Seems this is a Firefox Question not a b.m.o Issue 

-> Firefox 

Comment 2

[Aaron Slunt]

The command: 'firefox "site here" -p' works (with local files as well, and
starting up firefox with don't ask at startup unchecked works as well, with
local and internet files).

firefox -p "site here" does NOT work (it does not recognize the site arg).

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but I do believe it is since -p doesn't have
any args that are associated with it (thus the site should be recognized as a
firefox arg, not the p switch arg).

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050630
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005063006

Comment 3

[Aaron Slunt]

Forgive me, apparently -p accepts an argument, the named profile.

However, replacing -p with -profilemanager still doesn't go to the site if the
site arg is after -profilemanager. This should be a bug.

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

This looks like a dupe of bug 296482. I tried to reproduce on trunk and 1.0. It
only happened once, and that was when firefox.exe was running in the background.
This *might* be related to bug 253950.

Comment 5

[Elmar Ludwig]

Aaron: The command line handling problem you mention is bug 74303.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 296482 ***