Bug 172864

Summary:	Only one profile can be active at one time
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Stefan Becker <chemobejk>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	andersk, wtogami
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Description Stefan Becker 2005-11-10 18:03:05 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051109 Fedora/1.5-0.5.0.rc1.NOEL.1 Firefox/1.5

Description of problem:
Firefox currently seems only to be able to handle one profile at a time, ie. if you start it with one profile you can't start another instance using another profile.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-1.5-0.5.0.rc1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup firefox with two profiles: profile1, profile2
2. firefox -P profile1
3. firefox -P
4. firefox -P profile2

Actual Results: 3. Opens new window in the "profile1" instance
4. Opens new window in the "profile1" instance

Expected Results: 3. Start new instance showing profile manager
4. Start new instance using profile2

Additional info:

I took the Rawhide SRPM and was able to compile it for RHEL4 after minor modifications (disable pango, disable system cairo, nspr -> mozilla-nspr). After noticing the profile problem I tried to re-compile with

"ac_add_options --disable-single-profile"

added to firefox-mozprofile but then the build fails with:

gmake[1]: Entering directory `/workarea/rpm/BUILD/mozilla/profile/src'
nsProfile.cpp
c++ -o nsProfile.o ...
In file included from nsProfile.cpp:39:
nsProfile.h:46:31: nsICmdLineService.h: No such file or directory
nsProfile.cpp:80:34: nsIChromeRegistrySea.h: No such file or directory
...
gmake[1]: *** [nsProfile.o] Error 1
nsProfileAccess.cpp
c++ -o nsProfileAccess.o ...
In file included from nsProfileAccess.cpp:41:
nsProfile.h:46:31: nsICmdLineService.h: No such file or directory
gmake[1]: *** [nsProfileAccess.o] Error 1

It seems that the current Firefox 1.5RC1 only compiles for single profile usage...

Comment 1 Stefan Becker 2005-11-18 21:28:44 UTC

Problem still exists in 1.5 RC3. I've now also reported it to upstream

<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317040>

Comment 2 Stefan Becker 2005-11-18 21:56:53 UTC

This is intentional according to

 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271191>

"To enable multiple Firefox instances, you need to set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 as an
environment variable in Windows, otherwise, invoking Firefox will always add to
the current instance.  This is by design and not likely to change at any time in
the forseeable future."

I verified that this environment variable works. This variable seems to be new
for Firefox 1.5 as it worked without it in Firefox 1.0.x.

Comment 3 Stefan Becker 2005-11-18 22:45:26 UTC

See also

   <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308076>

Comment 4 Christopher Aillon 2007-04-17 14:59:46 UTC

*** Bug 164856 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Till Maas 2007-05-08 20:20:01 UTC

*** Bug 164856 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***