151515 - Starting two mozilla processes for same user not allowed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 122698

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Rich Harkins]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020610
BuildID:    2002061108

I don't know if this qualifies as a bug but it is annoying.  It appears that
since about 0.9.9 Mozilla has been creating lock files in ~/.mozilla/root (don't
know why it's in "root" - I'm running it as a user).  The problem is that if I
try to start another mozilla process it complains that the account profile is
locked.  Working around it by using New Window is okay but in a multi-desktop
KDE setting it is kindof annoying to have to go find the open mozilla, create a
new window, and then move the window to the desktop I was originally wanting it
to be in.  Prior to 0.9.9 I would just click the dinosaur icon on my KDE toolbar
whenever I wanted a new window on the current desktop.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open mozilla.
2. Open mozilla again while the first one is open.


Actual Results:  Got dialog indicating account profile was locked and couldn't
start a new one using the same profile.

Expected Results:  Treated this as open a new window on the existing process.

N/A

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

this is the result of fix for bug 76431
See also bug 147160 and meta bug 135137
Resolving as dup of bug 122698

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

Comment 2

[Paul Wyskoczka]

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