Sorry, but we don't just want to stick every possible option in to the quicklist menu, and the "-safe-mode" and "-Profilemanager" options are not used often enough to justify such a prominent place in the UI.
Firstly, the profilemanager option will always fail if you already have another Firefox instance open anyway (unless you use -no-remote, but we certainly do not want that in any option by default as you will then get errors about the profile being locked if you try to open a new instance without realizing one is already open). Secondly, the -safe-mode option will always fail to do the right thing unless you close all running instance. The -no-remote option won't help you there either (specifying it will just lead to errors about the profile being locked). In addition to that, we don't want an entry for private-browsing mode until Firefox supports the ability to have a mixture of private and non- private windows. Having a quicklist entry which closes all of your current windows to switch mode is not really acceptable. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/884595 Title: Improve usability for firefox on unity Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: The fact that unity pushes me always(!) to the existing firefox window if i hit the firefox icon is a usability nightmare. I often group windows on a certain desktop for a certain task - therefore it would be great to have the possibility to raise a new window. The following changes improve the situation - in my opinion this should be the default: ---- cat /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop > ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop cd ~/.local/share/applications/ patch -p0 <<EOF --- firefox.desktop.orig 2011-10-08 10:56:11.000000000 +0200 +++ firefox.desktop 2011-11-01 06:43:34.844685893 +0100 @@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg+;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm; StartupWMClass=Firefox StartupNotify=true -X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow; +X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow;Private;Safe;ProfileManager; +TargetEnvironment=Unity [NewWindow Shortcut Group] Name=Open a New Window @@ -154,3 +155,18 @@ Name[zh_TW]=開啟新視窗 Exec=firefox -new-window about:blank TargetEnvironment=Unity + +[Private Shortcut Group] +Name=Private Mode +Exec=firefox -private-toggle +TargetEnvironment=Unity + +[Safe Shortcut Group] +Name=Safe Mode +Exec=firefox -safe-mode +TargetEnvironment=Unity + +[ProfileManager Shortcut Group] +Name=Start Profile Manager +Exec=firefox -ProfileManager + EOF --- To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/884595/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp