366158 - -ProfileManager ignored on second startup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 362355

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[a_geek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9

Hello,
I run one copy of Firefox and would like to run a second with a different profile. I already have a number of different profiles, so I tried to start Firefox by using these incantations:

$ firefox -ProfileManager
$ firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote
$ firefox -ProfileManager --no-remote

But whatever I tried, it would not come up with the profile manager but instead load the home page. Also, there was no individual session, but it was just another window of the already-running session.

What gives?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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I searched mozilla.org and mozilla.com as well as the Firefox installation and its online help for how to run a separate session to no avail. NB: Every web developer (at least!) needs this functionality.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

-no-remote wasn't supported until 2.0, for 1.5.0.x you need to |set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1| first.