Closed Bug 459991 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

"Already running" message if profile directory doesn't exist

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 278860

People

(Reporter: jwkbugzilla, Unassigned)

References

Details

Remove a Firefox profile directory (or rename it), don't modify profile.ini. Start Firefox - you get a message "Firefox is already running, but not responding." The message on OS X: "A copy of Mozilla Firefox is already open." That's a very misleading message and it doesn't help fixing the issue. Expected: If the directory of a profile in profile.ini doesn't exist - either create a new profile automatically or remove that profile from the list of profiles so that the user gets profile manager UI. Tested with a Firefox trunk nightly (build 20081010021316).
(In reply to comment #0) > Remove a Firefox profile directory (or rename it), don't modify profile.ini. > Start Firefox - you get a message "Firefox is already running, but not responding." Problem is re-produced with Fx Trunk on MS Win-XP SP3. >profiles.ini (other profiles are defined) > [Profile3] > Name=Directory-Not-Found > IsRelative=1 > Path=Profiles/Directory-Not-Found (Directory-Not-Found doesn't exist) (1) firefox.exe => profile selection dialog => choose Directory-Not-Found => "Firefox is already running, but not responding." (2) firefox.exe -P "Directory-Not-Found" => "Firefox is already running, but not responding." Bug 459638 is already opened for phenomenon of "Firefox is already running, but not responding." upon ; - "profile is already used", when started with "firefox.exe -P "profile_name" (both when "without -no-remote" and "with -no-remote") - "profile is not found ", when started with "firefox.exe -P "profile_name" (when "with -no-remote") Setting dependency.
Depends on: 459638
No longer depends on: 459638
It's a dupe of bug 278860 and doesn't depend on it.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
No longer depends on: 278860
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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