Re: Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-14 Thread Dave Townsend
Yes sorry, corrected that. On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 6:19 AM Marco Castelluccio < mcastelluc...@mozilla.com> wrote: > What is the bug where you made the initial changes? > We should link to the bug the regressions caused by it (I've seen at least > a > couple regressions filed mentioning this post

Re: Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-14 Thread Marco Castelluccio
What is the bug where you made the initial changes? We should link to the bug the regressions caused by it (I've seen at least a couple regressions filed mentioning this post on dev-platform rather than the bug where the regression was introduced). - Marco. Il 13/03/19 22:14, Dave Townsend ha

Re: Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-13 Thread Dave Townsend
A quick update here. After hearing some feedback from folks I've filed the following bugs that I should have a patch up for in the next day: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535021 Don't show the profile manager when the default profile was selected and an existing instance is

Re: Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-12 Thread Randell Jesup
>-no-remote and -new-instance still exist. Right now they do the same thing, >they make Firefox not look for existing instances and not listen for >remoting from future instances. They are pretty pointless now though, the >only case where they would have an effect is when a second instance is

Re: Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-11 Thread Michael Cooper
While composing this, I accidentally sent a blank message. Sorry about that. Thanks for writing this up Dave, it is really interesting to know how this is changing. It also explains what I thought was a bug the last few days. I have the profile manager enabled for every startup. In the past,

Re: Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-11 Thread Michael Cooper
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:35 AM Dave Townsend wrote: > Woah this email got long. How Firefox considers whether to pass off to an > existing instance of Firefox or continue launching a new one turns out to > be more complex than you might expect. I'm mostly interested in making > folks aware of

Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-11 Thread Dave Townsend
Woah this email got long. How Firefox considers whether to pass off to an existing instance of Firefox or continue launching a new one turns out to be more complex than you might expect. I'm mostly interested in making folks aware of and giving feedback on how this works after I've changed some