414517 - Multiple profiles stop firefox opening from start menu or <start - run - firefox.exe>

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Chris Milner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2

After creating multiple profiles, I cannot start firefox in the usual way (start then run then fire..) also it cannot be started from the command line unless you use "firefox.exe -no-remote" or open the profile manager first.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start firefox profile manager
2. create multiple profiles
3. attempt to open firefox from the start menu
4. attempt to open a locally stored web page or link
result: won't start,
5. press start then run and type firefox.exe -no-remote
result: firefox starts

Actual Results:  
See above

Expected Results:  
See above

Comment 1

[Eino Mäkitalo]

I have similar kind of problems with Firefox long time.  Some times when opening it using links from other programs or Start-menu too. It starts firefox "in background".  There is no window available but I can find a program in task manager. After killing this program I can start firefox again.  Sometimes I had to repeat this again.

Comment 2

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2)
> Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2)
> Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2
> 
> After creating multiple profiles, I cannot start firefox in the usual way
> (start then run then fire..) also it cannot be started from the command line
> unless you use "firefox.exe -no-remote" or open the profile manager first.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. start firefox profile manager
> 2. create multiple profiles

between step 2 and step3 is the profile manager still open?

> 3. attempt to open firefox from the start menu
> 4. attempt to open a locally stored web page or link
> result: won't start,
> 5. press start then run and type firefox.exe -no-remote
> result: firefox starts

Comment 3

[Chris Milner]

Hi Robert

I was using FF 2 in January but am using version 3 now. I haven't tried creating multiple profiles since the last attempt to use them. They were reproducible using the steps above everytime and no, the profile manager was not running - at least it was closed, perhaps it was resident in memory but I couldn't say for sure. I know I got exactly the same issue with any FF2 I tried on any OS (windows or Linux)

Chris

Comment 4

[Chris Milner]

Someone named Eino Makitalo replied to this fault log and the issue he is talking about doesn't seem related. In my case, firefox wouldn't start if you had more than one profile.

Chris

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Chris, can you reproduce using

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start firefox profile manager
2. create multiple profiles
3. close profile manager
4. check that firefox is not in task manager
5. attempt to open firefox from the start menu
6. attempt to open a locally stored web page or link
result: won't start

and when you start, are you being prompted for profile?

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I haven't seen this in FF 3.5, and no response from chris
=> incomplete