249524 - Can't open new window from another application when firefox already runs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177996

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[adepali]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9

This has probably been reported before, but I couldn't find it. I've associated
firefox with html files, but whenever I click on a link in another (non-firefox)
application, it says Firefox is already running and I should select a new
profile. I've tried the -remote command, but to no avail - I get an "Error - No
running window found" message. This is really annoying, it makes Firefox very
hard to use.
I'm using Mandrake 9.2 here, not sure if this was happening in Windows.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Running firefox when another firefox process is already running
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Actual Results:  
Was asked to select a profile, couldn't use running one

Expected Results:  
Open a new window using the same profile

Comment 1

[Robert Parenton]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177996 ***