147092 - Need to create new profile to handle URLs by "mozilla"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 122698

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Adam Purkrt]

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

Up to RC2, when Mozilla is already running, executing "mozilla" or "mozilla URL"
open a new window or new window at URL, respectively. 

Now a profile choosing dialog appears and a new profile has to be created for
the new window to appear.

This makes URL handling (e.g.) in "Evolution" unusable.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla with "mozilla &"
2. Mozilla will start up.
3. Do it once more, e.g. "mozilla http://www.google.com"


Actual Results:  A profile choosing dialog appear.

Expected Results:  It should just open the window at the specified URL
(www.google.com).

It worked this way up to RC2.

Comment 1

[Sedated]

Attachment: JPEG Screenshot of #147092 by Sedated

Comment 2

[Sedated]

I get this also.  Mozilla pops up with the profile dialog, and when i tell it to
use the same profile as the original mozilla session (the only profile listed),
it says:
--
  Mozilla cannot use the profile "sedated" because it is in use.
  Please choose another profile or create a new one.
--

Comment 3

[Adam Purkrt]

A quick hack that solves the URL handling is to create a wrapper, something like

#!/bin/sh
if !(mozilla -remote openURL\($1,new-window\)); then mozilla $1; fi

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>It worked this way up to RC2.
No, it never worked this way !
You created a second instance and that can corrupt the profile.


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