I finally upgraded to Firefox 1.5 yesterday. I had been holding out for an Ubuntu
No big deal. I can figure out how to upgrade by hand. Everything went well and now I have a shiny new Firefox on my box. Firefox 1.5 seems a little nicer but the differences to the user do seem pretty marginal. It is faster but that is about the only noticeable improvement. The configuration dialog is completely different but not really better or worse than the old one. However, multiple profile support is completely broken, as far as I can tell, which is very annoying because I used that feature quite heavily.
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In a normal day I run three instances of Firefox, one for each profile. But with Firefox 1.5 apparently you cannot run multiple instances of Firefox at all. If you start Firefox with the default profile and then execute firefox -P webdev you get another window in the default profile, rather than a new instance of firefox running the web development profile. The profiles all work if they are the only firefox process running. For example, if there is no firefox process running I can execute firefox -P webdev and I get Firefox 1.5 with my web development profile.
So my upgrade was pretty much a wash. I can read my subscriptions without my eyes hurting but I have to install a bunch of extensions in my default profile and change the way I work. It is just annoying.
Hi, I find myself in the same predicament. I used multiple profiles quite a bit, and I can’t anymore since I upgraded. Did you find a solution?
Hi!
I found a solution to this problem, after finding your post when googling about it.
Here is the place, where I found the information:
http://blog.dojotoolkit.org/2005/12/01/running-multiple-versions-of-firefox-side-by-side
And my solution under linux (i use gentoo here) is to start firefox this way:
MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox -P Profile
This way the environment variable MOZ_NO_REMOTE is only set for one instance of firefox.
This also works when I try to open a link from Thunderbird. It is opened in the first instance of firefox that I start this way. Exactly like the behaviour in 1.0.x
I hope this also works for you,
Robert
Robert, thanks for the solution. The MOZ_NO_REMOTE env variable works perfectly.
Almost perfect. I dont believe I should have to reconfigure my system’s behavior to match a very large change in behavior in a minor revision of firefox. The documentation should either note that the switches for splash, profile selection, and profile manager do not work, or the software should behave as described in its documentation.
I prefer the second, of course.
Thanks for this. MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 == solution :-)