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

[John Vivirito]

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Alexander Sack wrote:
| 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
|
I thought i reporte dthis bug upstream the other day.

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Sincerely Yours,
~    John Vivirito

https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito
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Impossible to use multiple profiles at the same time
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