426820 - Firefox do not start when called from Outlook (following message's link)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 395891

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Henry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5

When Outlook is open and I want to follow a link within a message , if Firefox is not already open, it does not show up.
Currently using:
Windows XP Service pack 2
MS Outlook 2003
Firefox 3.0b5 (as default browser)
Firefox 2.0.13 (as alternate)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Outlook
2.follow a link on a message.
3. To open Firefox, I have to kill firefox process and 
4. open Firefox from start menu/desktop link.
Actual Results:  
When Firefox is started normally, every link follows work correctly.


Expected Results:  
As with previous versions, when any link is followed, Firefox should pop-up even when called from an external program.

Comment 1

[Henry]

Attachment: Screenshots from used programs About

Comment 2

[Andreas Feldschmid]

Hi,
are you using multiple Profiles?

If so, try to CHECK the 'Don't ask at Startup' Option in the Profile Manager.
Links from the OS should then open again, choosing the Profile used last time.

If this is true, this is a DUPL of Bug 395891

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

no response. assuming dupe of 395891