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arch_archer

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Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 19

[Solved] Firefox 5 profiles

In the days of pre Firefox 5 I used to have few Firefox profiles and open them, for example,  by using "firefox -p privacy" or "firefox -p dev" or just "firefox -p" to let firefox show me the list of available profiles. Now when I try to use the "-p" option I get bash script error that it "Cannot execute /usr/lib/firefox-5.0/firefox-bin.pure".
Here is that place in the script from the line 108 (/usr/lib/firefox-5.0/firefox)

pass_arg_count=0
while [ $# -gt $pass_arg_count ]
do
  case "$1" in
    -p | --pure | -pure)
      MOZILLA_BIN="${MOZILLA_BIN}.pure"
      shift
      ;;
...
...

Is this a bug or something has changed?

Thank you.

Last edited by arch_archer (2011-07-11 18:33:59)

ren2r

Member

From: Bahia, Brasil

Registered: 2011-06-22

Posts: 25

Re: [Solved] Firefox 5 profiles

Try "firefox -P", the option has changed.
"a upper case P"

Last edited by ren2r (2011-07-11 02:51:02)

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arch_archer

Member

Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 19

Re: [Solved] Firefox 5 profiles

Hmm, thanks, though the lowercase version still works with bare firefox binary (firefox-bin), so I think the option hasn't changed, just firefox parses the options in case insensitive way. And IMHO the Arch's "firefox" script shouldn't have any options that firefox binary already uses.

Thank you for the anwser!

xduugu

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Registered: 2008-10-16

Posts: 292

Re: [Solved] Firefox 5 profiles

It was always "-P" ('Create a new profile by running Firefox with the -P command line argument, choose the "Manage Profiles" button and then choose "Create Profile...".' [1]) and the script located at /usr/bin/firefox comes from mozilla itself.