[Bug 31746] Re: Impossible to use multiple profiles at the same time

[Alexander Sack]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:48:53PM -0000, Marco Fabbri wrote:
> The bug currently (on 8.04) afflicts firefox (i.e. firefox 3 beta) and
> firefox-2 (i.e. firefox 2.0.0.14).
> 
> Step to reproduce the bug:
> 1. close every firefox instance
> 2. open firefox using a specific a profile, Run Command "firefox -P" select a profile
> 3. open firefox using a different a profile, Run Command "firefox -P"
> 
> Expected Behaviour:
> At this point you should be presented with the same dialog at point 2, instead a new firefox window gets opened running on the same profile selected at 2 (i.e. a different window of the same firefox process started at 2).
> 
> Variations:
> The same is true for every combination of the commands firefox firefox-2 run at points 2 and 3; i.e. if you run "firefox -P" and then "firefox-2 -P" you end up with two windows of firefox 3 running the profile selected after entering the command "firefox -P".
> 
> Workarounds:
> Adding the "-no-remote" option to every firefox startup command ran after point 2; i.e. "firefox -P -no-remote".
> The "-a" option it is no more working.
> 

Thanks for the report. please add this to the bug summary.

Point about this is that multiple profile support is not actually
supported upstream. I remember that they wont-fixed a bug about this;
so i assume they only maintain it as a legacy feature and wont put any
work in this on their own. If anyone can come up with a patch, they
will most likely happily review and apply it.

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status triaged
 importance low

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status triaged
 importance low

If someone finds the bug upstream, we should add the bug id for
reference. opening an empty upstream task for now

 affects firefox
 status incomplete

 tag mt-upstream


 - Alexander


** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Medium => Low
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Also affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Low
       Status: Triaged

** Changed in: firefox
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Impossible to use multiple profiles at the same time
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/31746
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