690957 - Firefox is already running when opening a link from Thunderbird

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[u279076]

I'm unable to links in emails from Thunderbird in Firefox. When I click the link or right click > Open Link I get the standard "Firefox is already running" error.

Some information about my configuration:
1) I have Firefox installed to ~/Applications/Firefox-9.0/
2) Firefox is already running
3) Thunderbird handlers are set to ~/Applications/Firefox-9.0/firefox
(through Prefs > Attachments > Content Type = ftp, http, https)
4) I tried setting the preferences manually to prefs.js:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/home/ashughes/Applications/Firefox-9.0/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/home/ashughes/Applications/Firefox-9.0/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/home/ashughes/Applications/Firefox-9.0/firefox");
...as detailed here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser#Setting_the_browser_that_opens_in_Thunderbird_-_Linux
5) There are no errors in the Error Console.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0a2) Gecko/20110930 Firefox/9.0a2
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110922 Thunderbird/7.0
OS: Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit

Comment 1

[u279076]

Nevermind -- other applications are experiencing the same problem. Looks like this is more of a systemic issue.