146881 - Can't start another instance of the browser when mail is open

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 122698

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[rhorn]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052309

When Mozilla mail client is open and I try and start the Mozilla browser, the
Mozilla Profile Manager displays and when I click Start Mozilla, I get this
error: Mozilla cannot use the profile "default" because it is in use.  Please
choose another profile or create a new one.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Mozilla Mail
2.Open Mozilla Browser
3.Click Start Mozilla

Actual Results:  see description

Expected Results:  opened the browser

Comment 1

[rhorn]

Clicking on the Mozilla icon leads to this problem.  However, you can open
another window by clicking File/New/Navigator Window.  With the older version of
Mozilla, clicking the icon would open a new window.  1.RC3 won't open a new
window by clicking the icon.

Comment 2

[Sander]

This is by design; bug 76431 - if you start mozilla mailnews through a shortcut
with -mail and then start a regular mozilla, that runs as a seperate process,
and isn't allowed to access the profile that's already in use. The same would
happen if you'd run mozilla and then tried to launch a seperate mail process.
Admittedly not an ideal solution, but something had to be done to protect
profiles from being corrupted so much.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

not invalid

The reporter wants bug 122698 (that's working on win32)

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122698 ***

Comment 5

[Sander]

Ah. *grins sheepishly* Sorry, and thanks. :)
*goes to dig deeper into bugzilla to read even more bug reports*