155420 - the second instance of browser will bring up select user profile dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 122698

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[ablems]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020702
BuildID:    2002070204

Invoking another browser instance without closing the previous browser instance
will bring up the select user profile dialog and will not let you go on until
you create a new profile.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.bring up browser
2.don't close the previous instance and bring up another instance
3.Select user profile dialog will pop

Expected Results:  Just a new browser instance should come up

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Do you mean Mozilla should create another window using the existing instance,
like it does on Windows?

Comment 2

[ablems]

I believe so. I think that the behavior should be the same accross all
platforms. For example even in linux, you can right mouse click on a link and
say open it in a new windows and a new browser instance will open without asking
for a new user profile.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

you get no second instance if you open a link in a new window !
You get only a second window from the same instance.

We don't allow 2 instances to run with the same profile because it can corrupt
the profile.

I bet you want only a new window and not a second instance and that is a dupe of
bug 122698.
it's invalid if you want a second instance and it's a dupe of another bug if you
want a better solution to avoid the profile corruption with 2 instances

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