251018 - Profile Manager doesn't open if a browser window is already open

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 234114

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Tommy Becker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040711 Firefox/0.9.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040711 Firefox/0.9.0+

If you have an instance of the browser already open, and try to open the Profile
Manager via the Start menu item, another browser opens, not the Profile Manager.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2. Try to open the Profile Manager via the Start menu item.
3.

Actual Results:  
Profile Manager doesn't open, a new browser window does.

Expected Results:  
The Profile Manager should be displayed.  If there is a technical reason we
cannot display the Profile Manager while a browser window is open, we should
display a message to that affect, asking the user to first close the browser,
then open the Profile Manager.  The current behavior is confusing and just plain
incorrect.

Comment 1

[Patrick]

[adding to cc. Insert redundant comment here: "by design?"]

Comment 2

[PikeUK]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 234114 ***