344856 - firefox 2 beta start as firefox 1.5 when 1.5 instance is all ready running

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 308076

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[yaniv]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

when you have an instance of firefox 1.5 running and you try to start firefox 2 beta from commandline it starts a window of the 1.5 version even when you try 
to start it with a diffrent profile 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start firefox 1.5
2.start firefox 2 beta from commandline
3.

Actual Results:  
in step 2 it starts one more instance of firefox 1.5

Expected Results:  
start firefox 2 beta

Comment 1

[Pavel Cvrcek [:JasnaPaka]]

This isn't a bug. You can run only one Firefox version at the same time. If you 
want to run more versions, see this article:

http://www.wynia.org/wordpress/2005/12/08/multiple-instances-of-mozilla-thunderbird-or-firefox/

This bug is INVALID.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 308076 ***