Bug 114683 – firefox 1.5 doesn't always honor the -ProfileManager or -P command line args

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dan Girellini 2005-12-06 17:51:34 UTC]

The command line arguments -ProfileManger or -P <profile> are ignored if there
is already a running instance of firefox.  The command will just open up a new
window for the profile that is already running. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run firefox
2. Run firefox again with the -ProfileManager or -P options


Actual Results:  
A new firefox window opens for the already running profile.

Expected Results:  
Either the profile manager should start or a new isntance of firefox should be
started.

www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5  -canvas -debug +gnome +ipv6 +java -mozdevelop
-mozsvg -xinerama -xprint 40 kB 


Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.6-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10, 2.16-r1, 2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.llarian.net/
http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/
http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/
ftp://gentoo.llarian.net/pub/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aac alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr
crypt cscope cups curl directfb dvd dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd ethereal
exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit lcms ldap libg++
libwww matroska mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls
offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python
quicktime readline recode ruby samba sdl slang speex spell sse sse2 ssl stream
svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xine xml
xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt 2005-12-06 20:22:50 UTC]

use firefox -p to select between profiles.

[Comment 2 Dan Girellini 2005-12-08 11:44:44 UTC]

> use firefox -p to select between profiles.

I see exactly the same behavior with the -p option.

[Comment 3 plsdontreply 2006-01-20 11:04:39 UTC]

This bug is known as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308076

[Comment 4 Dan Girellini 2006-01-20 11:21:21 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This bug is known as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308076
> 

Thanks.  In brief, for now you can just run:

$ env MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox -ProfileManager

[Comment 5 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2006-03-09 12:53:22 UTC]

Fixed in mozilla-launcher-1.50, at least until upstream breaks it again

http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mozilla-launcher/mozilla-launcher?r1=1.49&r2=1.50&root=gentoo-src