Closed
Bug 147869
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
Multiple instances of Mozilla can't share a profile
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
DUPLICATE
of bug 147160
People
(Reporter: bobmon, Assigned: ccarlen)
References
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Details
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 BuildID: 2002052309 If I start up a mozilla process, and then attempt to start up a second separate process, the second process dumps me in the profile creation dialog box. If I try to reuse my current profile, I get the error message that the profile is in use. This behavior was not the case in previous builds; is it now intentional? I find it convenient and desirable to start separate processes, rather than always spawning new windows as children of the current process. For example, I have a (KDE) gui icon that starts "/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla" and another icon that starts "/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla -mail". (I checked, and the same profile conflict occurs if I execute these two commands from a shell command line.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Execute "${mozilla-path}/mozilla -mail" 2.Execute "${mozilla-path}/mozilla" 3.Attempt to reuse a profile (such as "default") Actual Results: I was told that I couldn't use the profile because it was in use, and sent back to create a brand new one. Expected Results: Not go on to step 3 above, but just used the profile again. grumble grumble grumble
Comment 1•22 years ago
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Dupe of bug 147812 or bug 147160?
Comment 2•22 years ago
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Yes. The new behavior is intentional because the old behavior led to dataloss and profile corruption if both instances wrote to the profile. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 147160 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Comment 4•22 years ago
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Yes, I found the previous reports (sorry to clutter things up). Still, couldn't the profile be reused in "read-only mode" somehow? It seems I'm not the only one who finds it useful to start multiple processes. This new approach is not satisfactory.
Updated•8 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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