[Mozilla Enterprise] Running two simultaneous instances with separate profiles

[Dirk Schneider]

As I know and like it is working in live the "-no-remote" parameter is
needed. Else the profiles not working independent. We are using
different profiles with different settings in our environment, wit "-P
profile -no-remote" and it's working fine. Clicking a link in
thunderbird is working.

One of our profiles (that for internet usage) is defined as "with no
parameter open this", maybe missing this default the link needs always a
profile parameter.


Am 08.08.2019 um 22:02 schrieb Stephen Dowdy:
> On 8/8/19 1:52 PM, Thane K. Sherrington wrote:
>> As I understand it, I can create two profiles in Firefox and then
>> open Firefox with:
>>
>> -no-remote -P "Profile1"
>>
>> -no-remote -P "Profile2"
>>
>> And have two instances of FF running with different profiles. That
>> appears to work, but when I click a link in my email (Thunderbird)
>> then either I get a message saying that FF is already running, Close
>> or Cancel (if both instances are running) or if only one instance is
>> running, then the link opens the other instance.
>>
>> Is there a way to set one to be a primary instance?
>
> Thane,
>
> the '-no-remote' is your problem.  it says a remote application can't
> issue an openurl call to that instance.
> You're looking for the '-new-instance' on the activation of the two of
> those.  then either can accept an openurl remote call.
> (that's probably not what you want, though -- so likely only have
> -no-remote on one of them?)
>
> The alternative is changing thunderbird to make explicit calls to a
> THIRD profile instance:
>
> firefox -P thunderbird-ffox %u
>
> that way it won't affect the other two running profiles.
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