379153 - standalone script for creating profile, useful for testing

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Testing :: General, defect)

Description

[Ray Kiddy]

I have created the script that I will attach to this bug. It can be invoked with --help.

Here is an example of it being used.

% perl ./newprofile.pl --appname /Users/ray/mo/trowser/mozilla/dist/Minefield.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox --profiledir /tmp/new --profilename jksdfsjdfjksd

The --run option will launch the given app with the new profile.

% echo "user_pref('browser.startup.homepage', 'http://www.ganymede.org');" > ~/extra.js
% % perl ./newprofile.pl --appname /Users/ray/mo/trowser/mozilla/dist/Minefield.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox --profiledir /tmp/new --profilename dfgjdsdjfhgsdj --extra ~/extra.js

Comment 1

[Ray Kiddy]

Attachment: perl script for creating profile

Comment 2

[Robert Sayre]

Comment on attachment 263178 [details]
perl script for creating profile

this is not a patch, so there is no need for review

Comment 3

[Ray Kiddy]

And it actually turns out that this is not necessary. It is easier than it seemed to create a profile, put a user.js file in it and start with the -profile flag.

So, this script is not necessary.