Firefox starts up with wrong profile after creating a profile in about:profiles
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(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect, P3)
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(Reporter: yoasif, Unassigned, NeedInfo)
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(Blocks 1 open bug, Regression)
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(Keywords: regression)
Noticed that Firefox was opening with the wrong profile after creating a new profile in about:profiles.
Steps to reproduce:
- Delete ~/.mozilla/firefox
- Download and install Firefox 67
- Start Firefox
- Quit Firefox
- Open Firefox
- Create a new profile named "whatever"
- Quit
- Start Firefox
What happens:
Firefox starts up in profile named "whatever"
Expected result:
Firefox should open in default profile, like it did in Firefox 66.
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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Contents of profile files after step 4:
installs.ini
[8050D45F76B92B26]
Default=qzxuo9ys.default-nightly
Locked=1
profiles.ini
[Profile1]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=en77g6hs.default
Default=1
[Install8050D45F76B92B26]
Default=qzxuo9ys.default-nightly
Locked=1
[Profile0]
Name=default-nightly
IsRelative=1
Path=qzxuo9ys.default-nightly
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
Version=2
Contents of profile files after step 7:
installs.ini
[8050D45F76B92B26]
Default=xpkbk27j.whatever
Locked=1
profiles.ini
[Install8050D45F76B92B26]
Default=xpkbk27j.whatever
Locked=1
[Profile1]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=en77g6hs.default
Default=1
[Profile0]
Name=default-nightly
IsRelative=1
Path=qzxuo9ys.default-nightly
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
Version=2
[Profile2]
Name=whatever
IsRelative=1
Path=xpkbk27j.whatever
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Comment 3•5 years ago
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I am navigating to about:profiles, clicking "Create a New Profile", clicking next, typing a name, and clicking "finish".
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Updated•5 years ago
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Comment 4•5 years ago
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Looks like this was introduced by bug 1322797. We no set the newly created profile to be the default. Not really sure if that is right or wrong.
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Comment 5•5 years ago
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Given that my the profile I originally launched with does not have a "Set as default profile" button alongside it, I think it is clearly a bug - not only that, it is a regression of previous behavior.
Comment 6•5 years ago
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(In reply to Asif Youssuff from comment #5)
Given that my the profile I originally launched with does not have a "Set as default profile" button alongside it, I think it is clearly a bug - not only that, it is a regression of previous behavior.
That's odd, it does for me.
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Comment 7•5 years ago
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(In reply to Dave Townsend [:mossop] (he/him) from comment #6)
That's odd, it does for me.
I am now seeing the same thing, but I didn't see it when I reported using the older build.
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Comment 8•4 years ago
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This continues to be annoying; if I create a new profile for testing, the new profile is immediately set as my default profile, even when I had a default set previously.
If I forget to set my default profile back to my original default, I end up starting a test profile without any interesting stuff in it the next time I update Nightly.
Comment 9•3 years ago
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Reproduced on MacOS 10.15 and M1, marking affected flags accordingly.
Comment 10•3 years ago
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Reproduced on Ubuntu 20.04 as well.
Comment 11•3 years ago
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This behaviour is known and will affect all versions on all platforms, there is no need to confirm that.
Updated•3 years ago
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Comment 12•3 years ago
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Any workaround suggestion in the meantime, please?
Example of the impact of this bug:
Not able to log anymore into Postman (desktop and web application)
because a new Firefox profile (configured with strict privacy settings)
is launched without being the default one,
hence the ineffective login.
Comment 13•3 years ago
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(In reply to solid.tester from comment #12)
Any workaround suggestion in the meantime, please?
Go into about:profiles and find your profile, then click the "set as default profile", which shall set the selected profile as default for the target install.
Updated•3 years ago
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Updated•2 years ago
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Comment 14•1 year ago
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(In reply to Dave Townsend [:mossop] from comment #4)
Looks like this was introduced by bug 1322797. We no set the newly created profile to be the default. Not really sure if that is right or wrong.
I'm not a profile expert, but it does seem wrong to me. I thought the last used profile became the default.
Has anyone tested past behavior is for a newly created profile to become the default? Pre bug 1322797? Also, does this also happen when when a profile is created in the standalone profile manager?
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