Closed Bug 918679 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

-new-instance flag doesn't work on Windows

Categories

(Core :: General, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
General
Version:
24 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 918681

People

(Reporter: intendentedelleacque, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130911042038

Steps to reproduce:

Open Firefox or Thunderbird, then launch from the command line firefox.exe/thunderbird.exe -new-instance -P


Actual results:

On Linux you will get  the ProfileManager running.
On Windows the flag has no effect.


Expected results:

On Windows too you should get the ProfileManager running.

Note that at the contrary the -no-remote flag works as expected in all OS.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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