[Windmill-dev] Firefox profiles in linux

[Barry Stump]

(ignore if this is not the correct place to report a problem with windmill)

OS: Kubuntu Feisty
Firefox: 2.0.0.6

Windmill is now able to create a named profile in firefox under linux
(yay!), but the clean up procedure is not quite correct.  It removes
the temporary profile directory, but firefox still retains the named
profile (now pointing to nothing) in the profiles.ini file.  This
means that (for me at least), the first launch of firefox from
windmill is successful, but subsequent launches get an empty profile,
even though firefox was launched with the -P option.  If the entry in
profiles.ini is removed (either manually or by launching firefox
-ProfileManager and clicking "delete"), everything works correctly.
Unfortunately, there is no way that I can find of removing a profile
via command line parameters to the firefox binary under linux.  So
windmill will have to remove the "windmill" profile entry from the
profiles.ini file, usually located at
$HOME/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini

If this wasn't my first foray into Python, I'd submit a patch, but
someone else will surely be able to fix this faster and cleaner than
me.

On a side note, your OSCON presentation was awesome.  Keep up the good work.

-Barry