Closed Bug 319702 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

can't select a different profile from command line if FF is already running

Categories

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

1.8.0 Branch
x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 308076

People

(Reporter: mmikucionis, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051128 Debian/1.4.99+1.5rc3.dfsg-2 Firefox/1.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051128 Debian/1.4.99+1.5rc3.dfsg-2 Firefox/1.5 with FF-1.0.x I used options "-P myprofile" and "-ProfileManager" and they used to work but now it simply opens another window. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. launch firefox (with default profile) 2. type in terminal "firefox -P existing-non-default-profile" Actual Results: opens new window with old profile Expected Results: open new firefox with selected profile the same happens with -ProfileManager. it could be specific to debian, I don't know who created the startup script..
Version: unspecified → 1.5 Branch
Possible duplicate of Bug 308076 ?
yes. sorry for my lousy search, but it was really difficult to search, because the number of bugs is overwhelming even with many keywords. thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 308076 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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