Closed Bug 407017 Opened 17 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Prism 0.8 on Intel mac won't run two apps simultaneously

Categories

(Mozilla Labs :: Prism, defect)

Product:
Mozilla Labs
Component:
Prism
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: dontodd, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Prism 0.8

Running Prism 0.8 on an Intel Macbook Pro 10.4.10, I can't run two webapps simultaneously; when trying to open the second app I get a dialog that says "A copy of Prism is already open. Only one copy of Prism can be open at a time."

I thought it might be related to <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404692">bug 404692</a> but exporting MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 didn't help.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start web app
2. Start second web app
3. Dialog pops up about only one copy of prism can be open at a time.
Actual Results:  
I clicked OK and went to my regular firefox browser to do what I needed.

Expected Results:  
Allowed me to open more than one web app at a time.
This is a dup of bug 403727, right?
I don't think this is a dup of bug 403727. Without more digging, anyway, it doesn't look to be the same issue.
No, it is not a duplicate.
bug 403727 highlights the problem that one instance might crash all others on XP. This is a problem, but not a severe one.
On mac, however, the symptom is that you cannot launch more than one prism-app at the same time. Never. This is a major defect as it somehow prevents the typical usecase prism was designed for.
Now that bug 403727 is fixed, this works
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
mark, i'm looking for status on the mac issue that this bug represents and that i mentioned in bug 402317  

i was told this was a xulrunner design issue, not a prism bug.  


That's very cool, thanks!
When is a new official build (e.g. 0.9) planned to be made available?
when mark sais "this works" i am not certain if he means this mac issue or the xp issue that was referenced in this comment thread.  
?
bug 403727 is about the fact that when running 2 prism webapps, only 1 prism.exe process is used (you can check the Task Manager). That behavior has been fixed. Now each webapp has its own prism.exe process.

This bug (407017) is similar, in that xulrunner on mac checks to see if another XUL application is already using the profile and cannot run if the profile is locked (by another XUL application). This has been fixed as well, by the same code that fixed 403727. Since webapp are now in separate processes, they are also in different profiles.
great, thanks for clearing that up for me.
has the fix been applied to the latest xulrunner build?




A feature was added to xulrunner which allows a xul app to override default behavior and have 2 instances run in separate processes.

So yes, xulrunner nightlies have the feature, but prism also has changes to make use of the feature.
Where can one get a copy of the application (for Mac OS X) that has these changes?
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