944778 - Starting Firefox over and again on OSX blocks and does not create tabs.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[J.F.Lanting]

Attachment: Screenshot of how it successfully works on XP

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131112160018

Steps to reproduce:

1.Start Firefox in any way.
2.From a command line start Firefox with a different URL
- refuses : "Start Firefox already running".


Actual results:

This procedure has worked for me for many years on all MSWindow platforms:
: starting many websites at once, to see all (for me) related sites together.
In fact I launch from a JAVA program, but that gives the same results.
On OSX (recently purchased) the above happens.


Expected results:

Every start of Firefox should add a tab to the already running Firefox instance.

I've seen similar complaints in some forums, but those always gave useless reasons or solutions.
;JOOP!

Comment 1

[J.F.Lanting]

To indicate the right platform I changed it in the heading to OSX.
To emphasize:
it WORKS on MSWindowsXP and MSWindows7.
it FAILS on OSX Mavericks.
;JOOP!

Comment 2

[J.F.Lanting]

As this bugreport got no response at all I switched to Safari on OSX. Works for me.

Pity.

;JOOP!

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Frankie, does this reproduce for you?

Comment 4

[J.F.Lanting]

I almost forgot about this thread.
Nowadays I'm running FireFox 38 solely on OSX 10.10.3 and it works as requested.
So, you may close.
;JOOP!

Comment 5

[Frankie]

CNR. Closing as per reporter's WFM.