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Have web-ext create a profile for use with --firefox-profile #2333

Open Gooberpatrol66 opened 3 years ago

Gooberpatrol66 commented 3 years ago

Is this a feature request or a bug?

feature request

What is the current behavior?

nathan@guixlaptop ~/Documents/projects/DSTM/DSTM $ web-ext run --firefox-profile=/home/nathan/Documents/projects/DSTM/web-ext-profile --keep-profile-changes
Running web extension from /home/nathan/Documents/projects/DSTM/DSTM

s: The request "/home/nathan/Documents/projects/DSTM/web-ext-profile" profile name cannot be resolved to a profile path

What is the expected or desired behavior?

web-ext run --firefox-profile=\<empty directory> will create a new profile in that directory

Version information (for bug reports)

Firefox version: 92.0.1
Your OS and version: Linux/Guix
Paste the output of these commands:

node --version && npm --version && web-ext --version

v14.16.0 6.14.11 6.0.0

rpl commented 2 years ago

We briefly discussed about this in our last triage meeting, the enhancement request seems reasonable but not a priority and so we would be ok with reviewing a contributed pull request.