Closed Bug 334953 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Rename profile and you will get confusing error message

Categories

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
trivial

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 278860

People

(Reporter: mats.ahlberg, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060420 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060420 Minefield/3.0a1

I had a profile problem so i renamed my profile from avub8tf0.default to avub8tf0.default2 and launched firefox and got the error message that i already had firefox running

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Rename profile to *.default2
2.Launch Firefox.

Actual Results:  
Error message that says that firefox is already running.

Expected Results:  
Create new profile?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 278860 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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