300392 - Running firefox with Run-As

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 271191

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[Mike Hoye]

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


Under XP/Pro, logged in as your typical user, starting FF normally as the user
and then starting a second FF window w/ "run as" and running as the local
administrator. In the administrator's window, the bookmarks in the bookmark
toolbar and the history in the location bar is the user's recent history and the
user's bookmarks, not the administrator's.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start firefox, clear your history and browse to somewhere admin hasn't been.
Drag that URL into the bookmarks toolbar.
2.Minimize that window, right-click-run-as firefox, run as "administrator"
3.Pull down the location bar, and see that distinctive site in the history, and
the in the bookmarks toolbar.

Actual Results:  
See the user's recent browser history / bookmarks duplicated in the
administrator's window.

Expected Results:  
Seen the administrator's info, not the user's.

Running on XPPro, SP2 with up-to-date security patches. Discovered the bug while
running FF in a long-standing user account, but verified by creating a brand-new
unprivileged user and following the described procedure.

Comment 1

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

This is the standard "running firefox again just opens a new window in a running
instance" situation.  I'm sure there's some other bug it can be duped against.

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 271191?

Comment 3

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

I agree: marking dupe of bug 271191.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 271191 ***