[Mozilla Enterprise] Opening link from other program opens new instance of firefox

Timo Pietilä timo.pietila at helsinki.fi
Fri Sep 6 07:43:26 UTC 2019


Upgrade from 60 to 68 did create another odd profile that no-one uses. 
Maybe that is a cause to this behavior. I need to investigate further 
when I'm home.

Timo Pietilä

On 5.9.2019 16.21, Mike Kaply wrote:
> No remote is what usually creates this problem.
> 
> Do you have more than one profile?
> 
> Is the Firefox you are using the default profile?
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 1:47 AM Timo Pietilä <timo.pietila at helsinki.fi 
> <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>> wrote:
> 
>     Windows. I have not tweaked how FF starts in any way. Should I add
>     -no-remote in open with -commands in registry to avoid that behavior?
> 
>     Timo Pietilä
> 
>     On 4.9.2019 18.34, Mike Kaply wrote:
>      > Do you have Firefox started with -no-remote?
>      >
>      > what platform are you on?
>      >
>      > Mike
>      >
>      > On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:00 AM Timo Pietilä
>     <timo.pietila at helsinki.fi <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>
>      > <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi
>     <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     This is behavior of 68 that is not specifically esr-related
>     but I would
>      >     like to know how to prevent it:
>      >
>      >     If you click a link from for example thunderbird it doesn't open
>      >     link in
>      >     already open FF but to new instance of FF. How do I prevent
>     this? Is
>      >     there a property or policy that forces links to open in new
>     tab in
>      >     already open FF?
>      >
>      >     Timo Pietilä
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