373301 - -P command line option ignored on multiple starts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 308076

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[gulraj rijhwani]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070223 Fedora/1.5.0.10-1.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070223 Fedora/1.5.0.10-1.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.10

-P option to select specific profile is ignored for second and subsequent Firefox starts when running multiple windows since recent update (via yum) on FC5.  Once Firefox is running, all subsequent starts initiate a new window under the currently used profile, irrespective of command line specification, making it impossible to now have several profiles open in different windows concurrently.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox with any profile
2. Attempt to start another Firefox instance with a different profile (either from KDE menus or directly from command line)

Actual Results:  
Second startup will be running under the profile of the first, not the profile specified.

Expected Results:  
Second startup would be expected to be (and used to) run under the profile specified by the command line.

Previously it used to be impossible to start multiple profiles with url specified on the command line if the profile was already in use.  It appears that the fix for this was to ignore profile specification if an instance of Firefox is already running.