Mozilla Firefox

  1. Bug #31746
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 31746

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In , John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008050509 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008050509 Firefox/3.0b5

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-profile-name', I get a new browser window that uses the same profile. If I run 'firefox -ProfileManager', I also a new browser window instead of the profile manager.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run firefox for first time
2.choose a profile
3.than run "firefox -P name of different profile"
Actual Results:
both Firefox processes are using same profile even after naming a different profile

Expected Results:
both firefox windows open should use different profiles

If I run 'firefox -ProfileManager', I also a new browser window instead of the profile manager.
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.