Comment 1 for bug 884595

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

Sorry, but we don't just want to stick every possible option in to the quicklist menu, and the "-safe-mode" and "-Profilemanager" options are not used often enough to justify such a prominent place in the UI.

Firstly, the profilemanager option will always fail if you already have another Firefox instance open anyway (unless you use -no-remote, but we certainly do not want that in any option by default as you will then get errors about the profile being locked if you try to open a new instance without realizing one is already open).

Secondly, the -safe-mode option will always fail to do the right thing unless you close all running instance. The -no-remote option won't help you there either (specifying it will just lead to errors about the profile being locked).

In addition to that, we don't want an entry for private-browsing mode until Firefox supports the ability to have a mixture of private and non-private windows. Having a quicklist entry which closes all of your current windows to switch mode is not really acceptable.