147812 - Multiple instances of a profile prevented

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 147160

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[Tet]

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

If I launch multiple instances of Mozilla, I now have to select a
different profile for each one. If I try and use the same profile,
it complains, saying:

Mozilla cannot use the profile "tet" because it is in use.
Please choose another profile or create a new one.

This is a major problem for me. I run a multi-headed system, with
two screens on a single X server. I have a general purpose browser
on one screen, and a browser sitting on our status monitoring pages
on the other screen. To do this I *have* to start two instances of
Mozilla, because I can't drag windows between screens. Requiring a
different profile for each means I lose my bookmarks and browser
settings, etc.

The really annoying thing is that this has been working forever. I've
been using Mozilla on and off since M8, and as my main browser for
over a year now. None of the releases prior to rc3 had this
restriction, and I can't for the life of me see why it's been added
now. I can't see why a multi-user OS like Unix needs browser profiles
in the first place, other than for consistency with the Windows and
Mac ports. This *needs* to be fixed before 1.0 is released.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla
2. Start another Mozilla
3.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

This is not a bug but the fix for bug 76431 to prevent users from running
multiple instances of mozilla using the same profile.

See also bug 122698 and meta bug 135137

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 147160 ***

Comment 2

[K'Trina Medina]

Verified as a dupe of bug 147160