305726 - user can choose to kill old Mozilla process to use the same profile

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 224834

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, enhancement)

Description

[Boying Lu]

Mozilla should provide a UI (e.g. a dialog) to let user choose to shutdown the
previous Mozilla process or not when the selected profile is using by previous one. 

If user decide to shutdown the previous Mozilla process,the previous should be
closed without data losing. E.g. modified preferences, address, unfinished
composing e-mails and html files should be saved.

There are very strong requirments in SunRay environment. A SunRay user often
logins the server from one terminal and then he may login the system from
another with the same account and want to use Mozilla with the same profile.

User often doesn't want to use a new profile because they don't want to do setup
work again and again.

Comment 1

[John C. McCabe-Dansted]

This is also important for Firefox 1.5 on Linux. I find that there often isn't a window to close when Firefox says 

  "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."

, and it is not obvious that a windowless firefox can be closed by typing 

   killall firefox-bin

Comment 2

[Roy Gathercoal]

Is this the same as 239233? Firefox leaving a component running when it closes.

I experience this regularly, receiving the error message mentioned. Sometimes it will be resolved by Killing the process in the Task Manager box. Sometimes I need to reboot in order to open another incident of Firefox or to free up the memory--in this particular case, 125,048 bytes.

I have a detailed (11 step) report of how it happened on my computer, including hijack this report and build information. 

I don't know if I should include this information here, so I will not. If someone wants the information, I will be happy to email the data. [e-mail]

Please forgive me if I have not responded correctly. I am intimidated, I admit. I am not in any way a programmer but am working to increase the visibility of and users in the Mozilla community. 

Roy Gathercoal
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