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Firefox opens only if new profile is created on launch

Bug #552525 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas on 2010-03-31

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #518422: [MASTER] Firefox does not start with certain addons installed. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu6, Ubuntu Lucid, all updates installed

1. From a shell, enter "firefox".
2. From a shell, enter "firefox -P". In the profile manager, create a new profile named "test" and choose "Start Firefox". (Exit when done.)
3. From a shell, enter "firefox -P test", to launch with the profile you just created.

What happens:
1. Firefox exits immediately.
2. A browser window opens.
3. Firefox exits immediately.

What should happen:
1. A browser window opens.
2. A browser window opens.
3. A browser window opens.

There isn't any error output when Firefox exits immediately. strace output attached.

See original description

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2010-03-31:

Output of "strace firefox > ./strace-firefox 2>&1" Edit (8.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Nandan Vaidya (gotunandan) wrote on 2010-03-31:

Here's a "Me Too" comment.

I have faced this whenever I tried something like this

http://www.linuxized.com/2009/05/speeding-up-firefox-with-tmpfs-and-automatic-rsync/

When I move my firefox profile into the tmpfs directory and create a symlink to it from .mozilla
But that has not always been the case either. Sometimes the symlink was also to a "mozilla-profile" directory in the same parent directory as the .mozilla symlink.

Its a very random "error" but I've only faced this when I have done something like that ^
Sort of think that it is related to something in the firefox profile, but have not found anything concrete to pin point it on.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2010-03-31:

To clarify, I have not done anything funky with my profile. However, I had not thought to try with a new profile, and I see that works. Updating summary...

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) on 2010-03-31

description:	updated
summary:	- Firefox fails to launch + Firefox opens only if new profile is created on launch

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2010-04-01:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 518422, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.