511868 - "Firefox is already running, but is not responding" with external URL or html file and FF already run

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[arkel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 GTB5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) FirePHP/0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 GTB5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) FirePHP/0.3

When you try to open a external url or a hmtl file with firefox running, he send a message box "Firefox is already running, but is not responding"

Reproducible: Always




Solution : tested under Windows XP

Rename your profilte name directory by %username% 
and 
edit path in profiles.ini

Comment 1

[arkel]

%username% literally, not your session name

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

I can confirm this problem when clicking on url links in thunderbird (with ff already open), the links don't open in FF and it returns the error message instead. However, it occurs unpredictably, and I don't see a pattern. At other times, it just works as it should.

There's a lot of bugs confirmed and unconfirmed around this, but many different aspects. I didn't see one covering this aspect, so -> NEW.
Feel free to dupe if applicable.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thomas, do you still reproduce?

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #3)
> Thomas, do you still reproduce?

No, haven't seen this for a long time. Iirc this was a sleep and resume thing on laptop, and I'm mostly on desktop these days.
afaic, feel free to close this, we can reopen if necessary.