483732 - launch the same firefox with same account by two vnc, how to use single profile

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 135137

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[xiangrwu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7

network management person needs to launch the firefox with the same account by two or more VNC at same time which the same profile. (eg. different location and different PCs to launch firefox by VNC). 

When it lauchs by the second time, it's shows that one firefox is running, and should to close the first instance. Run ./firefox -P could launch twice, but should create a new profile. how to use the single profile to do so?

I think firefox could support a parameter to launch firefox which could ignore the .lock and .parentlock files when it boots.Yes, it is not safety to do so, but it could settle some questions and customers need it.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

not critical (dataloss or crash).

The short answer: It's not possible because it would corrupt the profile if 2 processes would write to the same database files at the same time