Closed
Bug 769261
Opened 12 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
Separate current profile information for Nightly and normal builds
Categories
(Firefox :: General, enhancement)
Firefox
General
Tracking
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 1373244
People
(Reporter: ws.bugzilla, Unassigned)
Details
Nightly and release builds store the last used profile name in the same place. I'm not sure where it is, exactly, but if I use a "Nightly" profile on Nightly, the next time I run the release build of Firefox, it'll be on the "Nightly" profile. It would really help if this didn't happen, and if Nightly stored this information separately. Especially because every once in a while, I accidentally launch Nightly with no flags, which causes it to use my main profile, potentially trampling all over it and causing data loss. Passing "-P my-profile-name" is not a suitable work-around because there are multiple ways of starting Firefox, including clicking a link or opening an HTML file via file associations.
Comment 1•12 years ago
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(In reply to Roman from comment #0) > Passing "-P my-profile-name" is not a suitable work-around because there are > multiple ways of starting Firefox, including clicking a link or opening an > HTML file via file associations. You should get a Profile Choose Dialog so this becomes a non-Issue. Btw, from the Profile-Manager's View there's no Distinction in Profiles and their Firefox Runtime Counterparts.
Another reason why passing "-P" is not ideal: the Windows taskbar shows a separate icon after I restart Firefox due to addon installation. (In reply to XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall] from comment #1) > You should get a Profile Choose Dialog so this becomes a non-Issue. You mean make that dialog show up every time I start Firefox? That's one thing I'm trying to avoid with this request. > from the Profile-Manager's View there's no Distinction in Profiles and their > Firefox Runtime Counterparts. But surely the profile manager is part of the Firefox build; the one from Nightly has the word "Nightly" in it instead of "Firefox". Hence the one from Nightly could conceivably keep a separate record of its last used profile.
Comment 3•12 years ago
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Chrome has 4 channels: stable, beta, dev & canary. The last one uses a separate profile directory by default without any command line switches etc. For the same purpose, Opera has the Opera Next channel (although much less bleeding-edge). With Safari it's a little different as it doesn't have public dev versions but its engine does - Webkit Nightly uses Safari UI, but a new engine. I think Firefox Nightly should do the same as Chrome and use a separate config directory by default.
Comment 4•12 years ago
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Also, platform should be changed to All All.
Updated•11 years ago
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Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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