I notice that more than 7 years have passed since this bug has been
first reported and it is still happening here in Kubuntu Raring, Firefox
23.0. Will anyone ever take time to fix this?
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In the end it's upto Firefox, and their upstream firefox bug 433717
that's linked is marked as won't fix with a note suggesting what to use;
so it's upto them.
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Or just use Chrome now that profiles are as simple as right clicking in the
top left corner...
Firefox is so 2005.
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I second this, the current behavior when running multiple profiles is
just plain broken and confusing. Command line options shouldn't act
completly different depending on if an application is already running.
And the workaround of -no-remote doesn't really fix this issue, as the
intended behavior
Just a quick summary here at the end for anyone looking for an immediate
answer:
This is not a bug; the documentation is just incomplete / unclear. If
firefox is running already, you need to use slightly different commands
from when it is not. Most of the docs assume you are not already
running
RANT
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but Firefox ignoring a flag explicitly given by
the user is a *bug*. I can understand how this behaviour arises from the
implementation of Firefox, however, it still is and remains a bug. Denial does
not make it a non-bug. Setting it to Wontfix (= not worth
@Dave Gilbert
I though the same thing but then figured that
$ firefox -P profilename
would just start a specific profile, it does not mean that you want every
window to have a different profile. Some people may have one of 100 profile
that they want to open, this command makes it quick and
OK, kind of fair enough - but can someone explain to me why -no-remote is
needed with -P ?
Is there any possible use for -P on it's own? If not why doesn't it imply
-no-remote or at least error
telling you that you need to tell it what to do.
I think the reason why this (and other) similar
We have to manually change upstream link to the new bug. Its rare if
ever upstream comments on the bugs in launchpad
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Difficult to find out how to use multiple profiles at the same time
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Its not a duplicate of an open bug. the one you are seeing is also been marked
as closed.
This is not something Ubuntu would fix. If you care to proceed please comment
on the upstream bug that is at the top of this page.
closing our task as well.
** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Ah, I see that you *can* successfully have multiple profiles running at
the same time, I was just doing it wrong:
Let's say you have 3 profiles: profile1, profile2 and profile3
Simply run these commands to run each profile in a separate window:
firefox -no-remote -P profile1
firefox -no-remote
firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager
This works just as well,if you want a graphical interface to pick the profile
from). You can create a link to firefox using that command and every time you
open from that link it will ask you which profile you would like to use.
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Difficult to find out how to
Mozilla developers have marked the upstream bug as won't fix without
pointing to the supposed duplicate.
The fact still remains, there is an option called -no-remote which is
supposed to allow a user to run two profiles. This does not work. If
this is not a feature, take it out of the help/man.
** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Confirmed
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Yeh, I think the important ones are:
It should be documented how to do this - it's not that uncommon a request
The interaction with -a and -P is just wrong, common options shouldn't
'sometimes work'.
It seems to me that -P should just work irrespective of -a (possibly by
implying -a)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/31746/comments/35
John Vivirito wrote on 2009-02-25: (permalink)
As reported it works from command line what is it you are looking for it to
do?
Nope!
1) ps: firefox 3 under a up-to-date intrepid does not allow browse using
different profiles
I just wanna point out, that this behaviour of FF is mostly Ubuntu FF
behaviour/bugs/features!
More here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/31746/comments/28
I also can confirm (from memory = AFAIR) that all that behaviour is correct
(=no bugs from above) on WXP with FF3.0.4.
Marius Gedminas wrote on 2009-02-25: (permalink)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/31746/comments/38
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I would suggest closing this long and meandering bug and instead opening a few
new ones:
1. please document the '-a' and '-no-remote' options in firefox --help
2. please
** Summary changed:
- Impossible to use multiple profiles at the same time
+ Difficult to find out how to use multiple profiles at the same time
** Description changed:
Since I upgraded to Firefox 1.5 from Dapper, I can no longer use two
different profiles at the same time.
When I run
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