448376 - Firefox does not start following links from external applications

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 395891

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Jan Janousek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

If Firefox does not run and I follow a link from an external application (e.g. Thunderbird) Firefox does not start properly: it is found in Windows Task Manager but Profile Manager does not appear.

If Firefox runs and I follow a link from an external application (e.g. Thunderbird) Firefox shows the link properly.

Starting Firefox manually works properly: Profile Manager window appears etc.

This behaviour appears after upgrading from Firefox 2.x to Firefox 3.0 and persisted after another upgrade to Firefox 3.0.1.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have more than one profile and Profile Manager enabled to appear.
2. Close Firefox if it is running.
3. Follow a link in other application (e.g. Thunderbird).

Actual Results:  
Profile Manager does not appear while a Firefox process appears in Windows Task Manager.

Expected Results:  
Profile Manager should appear to enable to choose a profile and then Firefox should start.

Comment 1

[Jonathan Pritchard]

Looks like Bug 312164 which I just added my comment on. See what you think. 

Comment 2

[Jan Janousek]

(In reply to comment #1)

You are almost right. The bug 312164 comment 9 is very right. Thanks.