208327 - Profile Manager starts when link is clicked and browser is already running

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Ed Holden]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

If Mozilla Firebird is alredy running, clicking on a URL in another application,
such as a word processor document or e-mail, will open the User Profile Manager
and deny you access to your own profile.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mozilla Firebird must be your system's default browser.  First launch (but
keep in mind that this problem doesn't happen if you originally launch Firebird
by clicking a link in another app; it happens only when the initial launch is
done by clicking the Firebird icon).

2. Open a program that has a link in it (e.g, a word processor with a URL in a
document, or an e-mail client in which a message has a URL in it).

3. Click on the URL.
Actual Results:  
The User Profile Manager will open and tell you to select a Phoenix profile.  If
you choose your profile you'll be told that it's already in use.  This is rather
serious annoyance because it means if my browser is open I can't follow links
sent to me in e-mail.

Expected Results:  
Ideally you should get a redirection to the new URL in your existing browser
session.

Mozilla 1.3 Quick Launch is running in the background, but I don't think it's
doing any harm.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Works for me on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b)
Gecko/20030603 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Have you tried a clean install with a new profile before doing this?  Also, have
you tested with the mentioned Quick Launch disabled?

Please try the above suggestions and add the results to this bug.  Thanks!

Comment 2

[Erik]

This is WFM using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.4b)
Gecko/20030603 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 running together with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows;
U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030603 as Quicklaunch in the background.

I started Mozilla Seamonkey, set it to use Quicklaunch, Closed Mozilla Seamonkey
so it stays just in the tray, started Moz.Firebird, opened Winword, created a
link in a Word Document and finally clicked the link. result: the already
existing instance of Mozilla Firebird opens the URI. So please provide the steps
provided by Mike (especially creating a new profile by starting Moz.Firebird
with option "-p") and come back with any results.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows 2000; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030603 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Comment 4

[Ed Holden]

Hi.  Original bug poster here.  I tried a few things and even posted a
screenshot online for you to see, and after all of it I discovered the REAL bug.
 This is an incompatibility between Mozilla 1.3 (and perhaps other versions) and
Mozilla Firebird.

It turns out that Mozilla 1.3 is my default browser, whereas I thought I had set
it to Mozilla Firebird (I've used Phoenix 0.4 and later for so long that I
didn't realize it had changed.  Sorry about not having my facts straight).  

However the QuickLaunch was a red herring, as was the URL-in-other-apps detail.
 So the real bug is this: if Mozilla Firebird is running you can't launch
Mozilla without encountering this error.  Should I file a new bug report or is
this a known issue?

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Reporter, this would be a separate bug, just to keep things clean within the
bug.    If anything, it would be a bug in how Mozilla detects other browser
instances, rather than a Firebird bug.

INVALID -> bug in Mozilla, not Firebird.

Comment 6

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified