712905 - no-remote conflicts with ProfileManager (running multiple profiles)

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Atis Lezdins]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0
Build ID: 20111219070828

Steps to reproduce:

Upgraded from 8 to 9.

Launching firefox with :
firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote

opening URL in one of running instances:
firefox -P browse -remote "openURL(http://www.mozilla.com)"




Actual results:

Error: No running window found

Apparently -no-remote now disables remote interface completly, however Profile manager can't be started without -no-remote if there is another profile running.




Expected results:

URL should have been opened in running browser with profile "browse".

Comment 2

[Scott Lindsey]

I think that this is probably "not a bug", but I for one would very much like to see the design corrected.  Web developers such as myself often want to run multiple profiles -- one for work, and one for browsing and perhaps another with no plugins for speed testing.

As it is, I have succumbed to the ability to open any profile I want with a single click via this command line:

google-chrome --user-data-dir=/home/slindsey/.config/chrome-browse/ 
- or -
google-chrome --user-data-dir=/home/slindsey/.config/chrome-work/

There doesn't seem to be an equivalent in Firefox.