990455 - nsIToolkitProfileService selectedProfile doesn't return the currently in use profile

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[noitidart]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140330004001

Steps to reproduce:

open different profiles and copy paste this into scratchpad and run it with environemnt browser.

var tps = Cc['@mozilla.org/toolkit/profile-service;1'].createInstance(Ci.nsIToolkitProfileService); //toolkitProfileService
var me = Services.wm.getMostRecentWindow(null);
me.alert(tps.selectedProfile.name);


Actual results:

it always gives me the same profile name as it states on the MDN documentatoin page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPCOM_Interface_Reference/nsIToolkitProfileService#Attributes


im thinking its giving me the profile that has Default=1 set in Profiles.ini im not sure though


Expected results:

it should return the name of the profile the code is running from

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This API gives you the default profile, not the current one.

Comment 2

[noitidart]

Can you advise me on a method to get the currently in use profile please

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Get ProfDS from the directory service. This gives you the path of the current profile, which may not be a profile in the profile-service at all, since people can start with an arbitrary profile directory using the -profile flag.