424649 - "Firefox is already running" launching link if Firefox started with -no-remote

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Ravenous Bugblatter Beast]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4

If you start Firefox with the -no-remote command line options, whenever you click an HTTP link in a 3rd party application you get a message:

 "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."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run firefox.exe -no-remote
2. Click on a hyperlink from a 3rd party application e.g. MSN messenger

Actual Results:  
An error message "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."

Expected Results:  
I'd expect the link to appear in the existing Firefox window in a new tab, as it does without the -no-remote option.

If I have two Firefox processes simultaneously running under different profiles by using the -P and -no-remote options, I would expect the link to open in the window that is running under the default profile.

Comment 1

[Jaroslav Zaruba]

I'm afraid this _very annoying_ behavior is related to an underlying operating system, and there's little Firefox can do about it. :[
(Oh please someone tell me I'm wrong!)

Nonetheless this has my vote.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

The *whole point* of -no-remote is *not* to open the link in the existing process, but in a new process. You need to have a different profile for each process. INVALID.

Comment 3

[Jaroslav Zaruba]

So apparently the question stands whether ability to use more instances/profiles concurrently *must inevitably* lead to inability of opening URLs from other applications.

Comment 4

[Jaroslav Zaruba]

(In reply to comment #3)
> So apparently the question stands whether ability to use more
> instances/profiles concurrently *must inevitably* lead to inability of opening
> URLs from other applications.

Wrong. :)
With FF3b5 links seem to work fine even with -no-remote.

Comment 7

[Piligrim2007]

11 years of this bug and no fix...
Awesome...

Comment 8

[Piligrim2007]

Ping to reopen this task!
It was not properly fixed.