Sorry but Firefox-2 is getting near EOS and they wont be fixing anything
but major issues security issues mainly. Please try to reproduce this
with Firefox-3.0 if you can reproduce this bug please click on Help
Report a problem and file the bug that way.
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
The '-no-remote' option is hidden and doesn't even show up with 'firefox
--help'. Either we should make it more obvious that '-no-remote' is
needed when using multiple profiles at once, or Firefox should be
'fixed' so that this flag isn't necessary.
At the moment, people who used multiple
It looks like the -no-remote requirement might be by design.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments describes the argument
as Enables Firefox to run with multiple profiles.
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new firefox profile doesn't display if default profile is open
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152666
You
To make this clearer.
1. If I have to profiles names A and B.
2. If profile A is running, and I run the command firefox -P B, a new firefox
window(not tab) will open under the current running profile, i.e. B.
Unlike marcw mentioned, -no-remote can help if profile B is not running.
However, if
eep.
Point (2) above should read a new firefox window(not tab) will open
under the current running profile, i.e. *A*. Sorry for that crucial
mistake.
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new firefox profile doesn't display if default profile is open
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152666
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I should probably add that this issue exists in reverse as well - if I
open the new profile first and then open the default profile, the wrong
profile opens - it will be the new profile instead of the desired
default profile.
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new firefox profile doesn't display if default profile is open
Never mind. I discovered that the -no-remote switch allows me to do
what I want - have both profiles open simultaneously. I am confused
however as to why I haven't had to do this previously on other Ubuntus,
even with the same version of FF.
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new firefox profile doesn't display if default
