I figured out the problem. The flag --no-remote needs to be added to the command line. For example:
firefox --no-remote -P profile3 http://www.google.com -- REGRESSION: firefox 3.0 does not honor -P flag to start a session using a specific profile https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250960 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
