233576 - Firefox and Mozilla mutually exclusive

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 170609

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Carlos Rodrigues]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

When using Firefox I'm unable to run the mozilla mail client or the mozilla
browser. Both see Firefox as an instance of mozilla and so I get an error when I
try to open the mozilla mail client (of course, Firefox has no mail client) and
a new Firefox window when I try to open a mozilla window. I think Firefox and
Mozilla should be able to recognize one another and behave as if the other isn't
running.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Firefox
2. Try to run mozilla mail
3. Try to open a mozilla browser window
Actual Results:  
Step 2 triggers a Firefox error dialog about messenger.xul not being found. Step
3 opens a new Firefox window.

Expected Results:  
Step 2 should have opened mozilla mail and step 3 should have opened a mozilla
browser window.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

what version of mozilla are you using?

Comment 2

[Carlos Rodrigues]

I'm using Mozilla 1.6. It's important to note that I can open a Firefox window
while Mozilla is open but not the reverse.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I don't have any problems using them on linux or win32

are these official mozilla.org builds or from CVS? (or packages from your distro?)

anyone else having problems with this?

Comment 4

[Carlos Rodrigues]

I'm using Firefox from mozilla.org (the gtk2+xft version). Mozilla I built 
myself from this source rpm: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.
org/mozilla/yum/SeaMonkey/releases/1.6/redhat/1/SRPMS/mozilla-1.6-1.0.0.src.rpm

I'm experiencing this problem since Firebird (0.7).

Comment 5

[M. Creidieki Crouch]

Attachment: Copy of /usr/bin/mozilla from my system

This wasn't labelled as to whether my /usr/bin/mozilla was
distribution-specific, but it says something about "RPM's", so I suspect it is.
Thus, I am including it.

Comment 6

[M. Creidieki Crouch]

I am having this problem as well. If I start Firefox and then try to run
Mozilla, another Firefox instance will start. However, if I start Mozilla and
try to run Firefox, Firefox will start normally.

The problem seems to be in the "/usr/bin/mozilla" script on my system. This
script uses "/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-xremote-client" to detect whether a copy
of Mozilla is already running, and to open a new window instead of another copy
of the program. However, "mozilla-xremote-client" seems to detect both Mozilla
and Firefox, and treat them identically. Thus, "/usr/bin/mozilla" will tell 
"mozilla-xremote-client" to launch a new window, and "mozilla-xremote-client"
will open a Firefox window.

I don't know whether this should be considered a bug in the /usr/bin/mozilla
script or in mozilla-xremote-client, mostly because I can't find any
specifications or documentation for mozilla-xremote-client.

I am attaching a copy of my "/usr/bin/mozilla" script, because I don't know
whether it's distribution-specific.

In the meantime, a workaround is to run /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin rather than
"mozilla" when Firefox is open.



I am using the Gentoo packages of:

Firefox 0.8
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040427 Firefox/0.8

Mozilla 1.6
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040309

Comment 7

[Neil Paris]

This bug looks *a lot* like Bug 173314, which was duped to Bug 170609...I think
this is a dupe (bug 170609 was "fixed" recently...I didn't see a checkin, but
its marked fixed).

Please reopen this bug if you disagree (with more information/proof why it isn't
a dupe)...since it is a dupe, it should also be fixed now, though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170609 ***