firefox 1.0.1 profiles

[Jeremy Prior]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 01:10 +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> Add processing for -P may be easy for direct invocation,  But I must 
> rethink if this is workable for remote protocol.

I don't think that profiles have ever really worked properly when used
in conjunction with remote commands.

ie
    % firefox -P default &
    % firefox -P anotherprofile -remote "openURL('about:blank',new-window)"

opens up a new window in the `default' profile.

All I was trying to do was make existing functionality work again!

> Also, what is seen is more or less a warning about use of remote 
> protocol, but this may still work on direct invocation.

Ideally, the wrapper would check to see whether the requested profile
matches the one for the running firefox and start a fresh copy if they
don't match.  However, I can't see a way of determining the profile of a
running copy remotely so this is going to be difficult to achieve
without extending the remote protocol.  As profiles are a little-used
feature (they are only used by developers and people who share an
account :-) there's probably not much interest in doing this.

jez
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