1502453 - Multiple user profiles: Firefox is already running but not responding. To open a new window, the running Firefox process must be completed.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 441035

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Aleksey]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0

Steps to reproduce:

1) Create two profiles:
    * UserHome
    * UserWork

2) Create two desktop shortcuts:
    * %ProgramFiles%\firefox.exe -no-remote -p "UserHome";
    * %ProgramFiles%\firefox.exe -no-remote -p "UserWork";

3) Open any of the created shortcuts.

4) Open any link in the system (for example, in the Windows settings).


Actual results:

Firefox is already running but not responding. To open a new window, the running Firefox process must be completed.


Expected results:

Normal work.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This works in my setup but I do have a default profile and that is therefore also used when Firefox is called by an external app.

Did this work for you with a previous Firefox version ?