289315 - Cannot open a new window from a system shortcut

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kevin Ar18]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0+

It appears that recently Firefox implemented some feature that prevents you from
being able to open a new Firefox window from a system shortcut.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox (using a system shortcut)
2. Click on the same system shortcut
Actual Results:  
Firefox gives an error, saying that it is already running but not responding.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should launch another browser window under that same profile.

I am guessing that this was done as a fix for some problems with Firefox.  My
guess is that it was done fairly recently (not sure what bug # it is).  However,
the fix prevents a user from launching a new window using the system shortcut. 
In addition, it presents a warning that is in error and could confuse some
people and make them think something is wrong (Firefox is working fine).

Comment 1

[Kevin Ar18]

Marking INVALID
Bug is due to the MOZ_NO_REMOTE system variable that I changed recently.  I had
thought that this might be the reason, and asked for some feedback on
mozillazine.  When someone reported that they had the same problem, I figured
that it was a recent regression, but he later reported that it was due to the
system variable.  I should have tried it myself.  Sorry about that.