Difficult to find out how to use multiple profiles at the same time
Bug #31746 reported by
Marius Gedminas
This bug affects 4 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Firefox |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Low
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Since I upgraded to Firefox 1.5 from Dapper, I can no longer use two different profiles at the same time.
When I run firefox for the first time, I see the profile manager window and I can choose a profile. If I then run 'firefox -P different-
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Rejected |
Changed in firefox: | |
assignee: | ijackson → nobody |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Changed in firefox-3.0: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | New → Won't Fix |
Changed in firefox-3.0: | |
status: | Invalid → New |
description: | updated |
Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
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I have discovered a workaround: 'firefox -a anything' pops up a profile dialog. The -a option is not documented by 'firefox -h', nor by 'man firefox', but you can discover it by reading the /usr/bin/firefox shell script.