319702 - can't select a different profile from command line if FF is already running

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 308076

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[marius mikucionis]

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..

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Possible duplicate of Bug 308076 ?

Comment 2

[marius mikucionis]

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 ***