918681 - -new-instance flag doesn't work on Windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 855899

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[intendentedelleacque]

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.
Verified both on 17 and 24 versions

Comment 2

[Loic]

Are you sure this flag exists? I don't see it on http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments

There is new-window but no -new-instance.

Comment 3

[intendentedelleacque]

(In reply to Loic from comment #2)
> Are you sure this flag exists? I don't see it on
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments
> 
> There is new-window but no -new-instance.

That page is not updated.

See http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mozilla/toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp#1339 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716110

Anyway if I've found now that this bug is a duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=855899

Comment 4

[Loic]

I wasn't aware of that. Well, closed as dupe.