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[Chris Coulson <chris.coulson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, but we don't just want to stick every possible option in to the
quicklist menu, and the "-safe-mode" and "-Profilemanager" options are
not used often enough to justify such a prominent place in the UI.

Firstly, the profilemanager option will always fail if you already have
another Firefox instance open anyway (unless you use -no-remote, but we
certainly do not want that in any option by default as you will then get
errors about the profile being locked if you try to open a new instance
without realizing one is already open).

Secondly, the -safe-mode option will always fail to do the right thing
unless you close all running instance. The -no-remote option won't help
you there either (specifying it will just lead to errors about the
profile being locked).

In addition to that, we don't want an entry for private-browsing mode
until Firefox supports the ability to have a mixture of private and non-
private windows. Having a quicklist entry which closes all of your
current windows to switch mode is not really acceptable.

** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/884595

Title:
  Improve usability for firefox on unity

Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  The fact that unity pushes me always(!) to the existing firefox window if i hit the firefox icon is a usability nightmare.
  I often group windows on a certain desktop for a certain task - therefore it would be great to have the possibility to raise
  a new window.

  The following changes improve the situation - in my opinion this should be the default:
  ----
  cat /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop > ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop
  cd ~/.local/share/applications/
  patch -p0 <<EOF
  --- firefox.desktop.orig  2011-10-08 10:56:11.000000000 +0200
  +++ firefox.desktop   2011-11-01 06:43:34.844685893 +0100
  @@ -124,7 +124,8 @@
   MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg+;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;
   StartupWMClass=Firefox
   StartupNotify=true
  -X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow;
  +X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow;Private;Safe;ProfileManager;
  +TargetEnvironment=Unity

   [NewWindow Shortcut Group]
   Name=Open a New Window
  @@ -154,3 +155,18 @@
   Name[zh_TW]=開啟新視窗
   Exec=firefox -new-window about:blank
   TargetEnvironment=Unity
  +
  +[Private Shortcut Group]
  +Name=Private Mode
  +Exec=firefox -private-toggle
  +TargetEnvironment=Unity
  +
  +[Safe Shortcut Group]
  +Name=Safe Mode
  +Exec=firefox -safe-mode
  +TargetEnvironment=Unity
  +
  +[ProfileManager Shortcut Group]
  +Name=Start Profile Manager
  +Exec=firefox -ProfileManager
  +
  EOF
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