firefox profile launched from second launcher combines with first
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Unity |
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unity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I have created a second launcher for firefox (for launching an alternate profile) and pinned it to the unity bar. I also modified the original slightly so that I can run both profiles at once. The two launchers run the following commands:
firefox %u -P default -no-remote
firefox -P Bjorn -no-remote
up until a recent update (I think in the last week, but I'm not sure), this worked great; each launcher worked independant of the other, launching the intended instance if it wasn't already running, and switching to it if it was. Now suddenly when I click the second one (Bjorn profile), it launches the correct instance, but the small arrow that's normally to the left of the launcher indicating an open window/running instance is instead shown next to the first launcher (for the default profile).
This is rather inconvenient as if the default profile instance isn't already running, I can no longer use that launcher to launch it because it simply activates/focuses the already open window from the second profile. As a workaround I currently always launch the default profile first, and then the other (so I now have two arrows to the left of the default launcher - as illustrated in the attached screenshot), but it's still inconvenient because it's now two clicks to switch; click on the default launcher and then choose the window I want. Clicking on the second launcher just informs me that "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."
The expected behavior, I believe, is that a launched application should always get associated with the launcher it was started from (as it used to).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.12-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite
Date: Sat Jul 7 21:29:14 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
That's still an issue, unsure if that's by design though, they are the same application...