I second this, the current behavior when running multiple profiles is
just plain broken and confusing. Command line options shouldn't act
completly different depending on if an application is already running.
And the workaround of "-no-remote" doesn't really fix this issue, as the
intended behavior of:

"firefox -P MyProfile http://www.example.org";

should be:

1) If no Firefox is running, launch one using MyProfile opening 
http://www.example.org
2) If Firefox with MyProfile is already running, open a new window of it 
displaying http://www.example.org
3) If only a Firefox with a different profile is already running, ignore it and 
act as in 1)

-no-remote gives you 1) and 3), but gives you a:

"Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new
window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart
your system."

error message on 2).

And having "firefox  -ProfileManager" just open a new window and not
showing the ProfileManger really can't be considered the right
behavior, as its so obviously wrong.

On top of that "-a" and "-no-remote" are really just ugly implementation
details that shouldn't be required to simply run two profiles at the
same time.

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Difficult to find out how to use multiple profiles at the same time
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/31746
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