Re: Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-14 Thread Dave Townsend
Yes sorry, corrected that. On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 6:19 AM Marco Castelluccio < mcastelluc...@mozilla.com> wrote: > What is the bug where you made the initial changes? > We should link to the bug the regressions caused by it (I've seen at least > a > couple regressions filed mentioning this post

Re: Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-14 Thread Marco Castelluccio
What is the bug where you made the initial changes? We should link to the bug the regressions caused by it (I've seen at least a couple regressions filed mentioning this post on dev-platform rather than the bug where the regression was introduced). - Marco. Il 13/03/19 22:14, Dave Townsend ha sc

Re: Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-13 Thread Dave Townsend
A quick update here. After hearing some feedback from folks I've filed the following bugs that I should have a patch up for in the next day: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535021 Don't show the profile manager when the default profile was selected and an existing instance is running

Re: Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-12 Thread Randell Jesup
>-no-remote and -new-instance still exist. Right now they do the same thing, >they make Firefox not look for existing instances and not listen for >remoting from future instances. They are pretty pointless now though, the >only case where they would have an effect is when a second instance is >tryi

Re: Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-11 Thread Michael Cooper
While composing this, I accidentally sent a blank message. Sorry about that. Thanks for writing this up Dave, it is really interesting to know how this is changing. It also explains what I thought was a bug the last few days. I have the profile manager enabled for every startup. In the past, getti

Re: Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-11 Thread Michael Cooper
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:35 AM Dave Townsend wrote: > Woah this email got long. How Firefox considers whether to pass off to an > existing instance of Firefox or continue launching a new one turns out to > be more complex than you might expect. I'm mostly interested in making > folks aware of a