Bug 498534

Summary:	firefox starts with wrong profile after session save / restore
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jonathan Kamens <jik>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, mcepl, walters
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2009-04-30 21:47:16 UTC

1. Create a firefox profile named "newspaper", so that you have a "default" profile and a "newspaper" profile.
2. Start firefox with "firefox -P default".
3. Exit and then restart firefox with just "firefox" to confirm that the profile is sticky, i.e., it starts with the "default" profile automatically.
4. Log out from GNOME with firefox running, such that its session state is saved.
5. Log back in.

Firefox *should* restart in the "default" profile after you log back in, but I find that it starts in the "newspaper" profile instead.

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2009-05-04 16:32:25 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> 3. Exit and then restart firefox with just "firefox" to confirm that the
> profile is sticky, i.e., it starts with the "default" profile automatically.

It doesn't ... asks for chosing the profile on startup.

Selecting 'don't ask on startup' and continuing ...

> 4. Log out from GNOME with firefox running, such that its session state is
> saved.
> 5. Log back in.
>
> Firefox *should* restart in the "default" profile after you log back in, but I
> find that it starts in the "newspaper" profile instead.

It doesn't for me ... starts in 'default' profile.

Any more ideas, how to reporduce it?

I have firefox-3.5-0.20.beta4.fc11.x86_64 here.

Comment 2 Jonathan Kamens 2009-06-04 02:55:21 UTC

Can't duplicate anymore.