297470 - Firefox: Profile Manager does not start, when another Fx window is open

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 264181

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Alexander Skwar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050609 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: 

The profile manager does not start, when another Fx window is open.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start firefox
2. Run: "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -ProfileManager


Actual Results:  
Another Firefox window opens.

Expected Results:  
Profile Manager should show up. Always, when Fx is invoked with -ProfileManager
(or -p).

On Linux, the profile manager can always be started with "firefox
-ProfileManager" - no matter if another window is open or not.

On Windows, that's not the case.

Comment 1

[Alexander Skwar]

On Windows, I'm still using Firefox 1.0.3. But people in the german usenet
newsgroups report, that this is still the case with 1.0.4.

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

You are not supposed to start 2 different instances of FF simultaniously
If you have to set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 264181 ***

Comment 3

[Alexander Skwar]

Ah, so the actual bug is, that I am able to run two instances at the same time
on Linux?

Do you happen to know the bug # regarding to this bug?

Comment 4

[Alexander Skwar]

Please see bug #297618.