I downloaded the launcher.exe
then ran it first time and logged in. Then I changed the game directory of the first (default) profile and created another profile with the same game directory as the first. After that I pressed play for the default profile and Minecraft crashed:
Game Output
Fehler: Hauptklasse net.minecraft.client.main.Main konnte nicht gefunden oder geladen werden
Error: Couldn't find or load main class net.minecraft.client.main.Main
The Console only sad bad exit code (1). I guess Minecraft references at the first start to the wrong directory, because when you press again play, it works.
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Seems to be fixed for 1.6.12