Closed Bug 1513335 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Confusing UI when trying to launch a new instance of Firefox while an existing instance is running

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED FIXED
mozilla66
Tracking Status
firefox-esr60 --- unaffected
firefox64 --- unaffected
firefox65 + fixed
firefox66 + fixed

People

(Reporter: mstange, Assigned: spohl)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression)

Steps to reproduce: 1. Have a "Firefox Nightly" app icon in your dock, but don't have it running. 2. Launch a locally-compiled Firefox build from the command line. This instance of Nightly appears as a new icon in your Dock and uses its own Firefox profile. 3. Click the "Firefox Nightly" Dock icon. Expected results: In the past, this would launch Firefox Nightly with your default profile, or (if you had checked the right checkbox in the profile manager) it would show the profile selection window. Actual results: Now the Dock icon bounces once and then nothing happens. The new behavior is somewhat similar to the behavior we have on Windows + Linux, but IIRC on those platforms we will at least focus the existing instance and open a new window with it. Just doing nothing is very confusing.
It would be good to narrow down a regression range. Did this happen in 65 or is it new behavior in 66?
Assignee: nobody → spohl.mozilla.bugs
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Fixed by the backout of bug 469990 (cset 590bdef6b312) which will be merged to beta shortly.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
The backout has been landed on Beta and will be included in the 65.0b5 release. https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/978402f68f3c
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla66
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