319497 - Cannot use multiple profiles simultaneoulsy

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 308076

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[adam johnson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

I am trying to run to different instances of firefox with profiles at the same time.

I have 2 profiles (default and foo) starting firefox with
firefox -P default
or
firefox -P foo
work fine unless an instance of firefox is already running. If that is the case it just opens a new window in the already running firefox instance.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create 2 profiles in the ProfileManager
2. Start firefox with -P profilename1
3. Start firefox with -P profilename2

Actual Results:  
It will open a new window with the settings of profilename1.

Expected Results:  
It should open a new instance of firefox (ie a seperate process) with the settings of the chosen profile

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 308076 ***