Re: mozilla-xremote-client with profiles not working?

Corey Wright writes:
> this email is in response to an earlier (11 jun 2005) email conversation
> between brian utterback & paul wellner concerning running multiple firefox
> profiles concurrently while targeting a specific profile with a remote command
> ("Re: mozilla-xremote-client with profiles not working?").
[details on proposed fix]
> i'm using debian's firefox 1.0.4, which includes backported security patches
> from 1.0.6.

If you're targeting future firefox releases, not just the
1.0 branch, be sure you test on a recent beta build.

The way -remote is handled has changed (to implement auto-remote,
bug 280725).  Basically -remote isn't reliable any more (for
instance, it fails on any url with a comma, bug 298960) and
should be replaced by simply calling firefox on the url
(proposed release notes saying so are in bug 304477).

It might even be that your profile problem is fixed, though my guess
is your fix will still be needed.  In any case, be sure to test on
a version new enough to have auto-remote.

	...Akkana