912576 - The Reset Notification is not displayed if Firefox is opened from the terminal

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0
Build ID: 20130904030204

Steps to reproduce:
1. Set your computer clock to 61 days in the past
2. Install the latest Nightly 
3. Open the Profile manager from the terminal using the command "firefox -no-remote -p" 
4. Create a new profile and launch Firefox 26.0a1.
5. Use the profile for a bit and close Firefox 26.0a1.
6. Set the computer clock back to the original time.
7. From the terminal, open the profile manager again and launch Firefox 26.0a1 on the same profile that was created in step 4.

Expected results:
After launching Firefox in step 7 - the Reset notification is displayed. 

Actual results:
The reset notification is not displayed.

Notes:
The issue is reproducible also on the latest Aurora 25.0a2.
The issue is reproducible on Windows, Ubuntu 13.04 and Mac OS X 10.8.4.

Comment 1

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

The issue is reproducible ever since the Reset Notification was added in Bug 498181.

Comment 2

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Hello Simona,

Before step 7, could you attach the profiles.ini file from the directory above the profile directory and attach it here. I suspect that the profile you're using is not the default one during this process and therefore reset is not supported.

Comment 3

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

Attachment: profiles.ini

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0
Build ID: 20160315030230
Ubuntu 14.04.

Hello Matt,

Sorry for taking me so long to answer to your question, I've been away for a while :).

I'm still able to reproduce the issue, as stated in the Description. Please note that before testing this scenario again, I previously deleted all my Firefox profiles. If I start Firefox through the terminal, the reset notification is not displayed. If I delete all my profiles and I start Firefox by clicking directly on the icon then the Reset Notification is displayed.