295945 - [Linux] Can't run Firefox as different user when another instance is active

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Xanthor Sccas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050514
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050514

Same bug than bug 271191 but for GNU/Linux.
The workaround "MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1" doesn't work on Linux.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set MOZ_NO_REMOTE to 1 (or not, that doesn't change anything)
2. Launch Firefox as a user
3. Launch Firefox as another user
Actual Results:  
The second Firefox window opened belongs to the first user

Expected Results:  
The second Firefox window should belongs to the user who launched it

No bug with Mozilla suite.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050911 Firefox/1.6a1
ID:2005091112

WFM. You have to have MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 set in the terminal that you launch FF
from, and you must launch it with ./firefox -P.

Comment 2

[Xanthor Sccas]

(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM. You have to have MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 set in the terminal that you launch FF
> from, and you must launch it with ./firefox -P.
This still doesn't work with 2005-09-19 nigthly...

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 4

[Steve England [:stevee]]

No response from reporter re: comment 3 -->INCOMPLETE.
Reporter, if you still see this problem with the latest release of Firefox 2, please reopen this bug. Thanks!

Comment 5

[u279076]

Running export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 in terminal, then launching firefox -P forcing a new profile works ok for me.  It starts another session of firefox with a new profile.

Changing the resolution of this bug to WORKSFORME.