866377 - "Firefox is already running but is not responding..." error upon opening a URL from/in Thunderbird message. Thunderbird started with -no-remote

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 382477

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[2t2]

Attachment: screenshot_a.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20130328110703

Steps to reproduce:


1. An e-mail message is open in Thunderbird
2. Thunderbird was started with the -no-remote option,
   it is intended so, the option must be because 2 instances, each for one profile need to run
3. e-mail message includes any url
4. Firefox is running with any other web page open
5. Following the link in e-mail



Actual results:

Error message as in the attachment screenshot_a.jpg.
URL does not open in Firefox.


Expected results:

Firefox opens the url without any error message.
Just as all other browsers (Safari, IE, Chrome, Opera,...) can do it.
Just as any other application can open additional document.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Firefox was not started with -no-remote, correct?
And problem does not occur if Thunderbird is NOT started with -no-remote?

Comment 2

[2t2]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #1)
> Firefox was not started with -no-remote, correct?
YES
> And problem does not occur if Thunderbird is NOT started with -no-remote?
YES

Comment 3

[jason]

Looks like there is a bug for this on the Thunderbird side:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=876412