[Mozilla Enterprise] Running two simultaneous instances with separate profiles

[Mike Kaply]

You can't have it both ways. If you use no-remote, you are disabling the
code that Firefox needs to find a Firefox window to launch when you click
on a link.

Mike

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 9:50 AM Dirk Schneider <dirk.schneider at lka-mv.de>
wrote:

> 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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