226333 - Thunderbird 0.3 conflicts with Mozilla 1.4.1 and Firebird 0.7 on Linux

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 226071

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[David John Davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031110 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 (20031028)

If Thunderbird is running then Mozilla and Firebird refuse to start with the error:

Error launching browser window:TypeError:
Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/component/browser/instance;1'] has no
properties

This seems to be an issue with the startup scripts of Thunderbird/Firebird using
the same environment variables as Mozilla.  Exiting Thunderbird will allow
Mozilla or Firebird to run normally.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Start Thunderbird.
2.  Try to start Mozilla or Firebird.
3.

Actual Results:  
Firebird/Mozilla fail to start with error:

Error launching browser window:TypeError:
Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/component/browser/instance;1'] has no
properties

Expected Results:  
Firebird or Mozilla should have started.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

can somone dupe this?

reporter, it's is helpful if you read the release notes under known issues
before filing bugs. Thanks for trying out the product!

Comment 2

[mephinet]

Yes, i can duplicate the problem with 0.4 too:

With thunderbird 0.4 running, 
it is impossible to start firebird 0.7.

When firebird is started without arguments, the above mentioned error message is
displayed. otherwise, firebird fails silently.

versions:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030 Firebird/0.7+
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 (20031205)

Comment 3

[Lorenzo Luengo]

also when you try to use 
MozillaFirebird -remote "ping()"
to see if there is a firebird instance running and also is thunderbird running
it echoes to the command line "Failed to send command"

i tried to use it in a simple launcher script like this:

#!/bin/sh

alias mozilla="./MozillaFirebird";
mozilla -remote "ping()";
if !(mozilla -remote "ping()"); then
mozilla &
else
mozilla -remote "openurl(,new-tab)";
fi

Comment 4

[Ben Sawyer]

I have been able to reproduce this with Thunderbird 0.4 and Firebird 0.7 though
I get a different error. 

Error Output:
    Unable to send command to running Mozilla Firebird instance.

If Firebird is running first, Thunderbird has no issues in opening.

Comment 5

[Kevin Teuscher]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 226071 ***