677028 - Crash Reporter restarts Firefox with a different profile, instead of the one specified on the command line

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 391977

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, defect)

Description

[vitar]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0a2) Gecko/20110805 Firefox/7.0a2
Build ID: 20110805042003

Steps to reproduce:

Two Firefox version installed side-by-side -- the latest legacy 3.6 installed as a regular app and Aurora 7.0a2 (2011-08-05) installed and used in the Portable Apps variant (with its own launcher and profile and a command line pointing to a profile location).

The commandline looks like
"path-to\firefox.exe" -profile "Some Path" -no-remote

Aurora crashed and popped out a "Submit Crash" request. After "Send report and Restart" a Crash Reporter says "sent ok" and restarts Firefox.


Actual results:

Now starts THE SAME Aurora (not a legacy 3.6) BUT it uses a legacy profile -- because an app environment contains no commandline parameters.


Expected results:

A Crash Reporter relaunched a crashed app should preserve a previous environment (in my case it's a "-profile C:\SomePath -no-remote" commandline parameter)

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is true. I'm not sure it's worth the complexity to fix it, though.

Comment 3

[vitar]

Need to re-check a dup state because of this bug behavior happens with a CrashReporter ONLY while any other ways to restart (from an Extension Manager or via some extension or via direct chrome: call from a JS Console) works right.