Bug#556258: iceweasel: profile selection and management now broken

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Tue Nov 24 21:17:44 UTC 2009


retitle 556258 manpage is outdated
thanks

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 07:18:47PM +0100, Piotr Engelking wrote:
> reopen 556258
> thanks
> 
> Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>:
> 
> > You need to use the -no-remote option with -P. This is something
> > where we differed from upstream for no real reason, and don't
> > anymore.
> 
> The current behavior seems very silly. Is it possible at all now to
> open a new tab in an arbitrary profile from the command line?
> 
> It also contradicts the documentation:
> 
>        -a application-id
>               Check for a running Iceweasel started with the specified
>               application-id. When iceweasel is invoked for the first
>               time with a particular application-id, a new Iceweasel
>               application is started; subsequent invocations of
>               iceweasel with the same application-id will cause the
>               already-running Iceweasel to bring up a new window.
> 
>               The default is -a iceweasel.
> 
> [...]
> 
>        -P profile
>               Start with profile. Implies -a iceweasel--profile, or -a
>               default if profile is default.
> 
>        -ProfileManager
>               Start with profile manager. Implies -a with a fresh
>               unique application-id.
> 
> Please bring the behavior and documentation back in sync.

The manpage is wrong.

Mike





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