<div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Mike<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 9:50 AM Dirk Schneider <<a href="mailto:dirk.schneider@lka-mv.de">dirk.schneider@lka-mv.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">As I know and like it is working in live the "-no-remote" parameter is<br>
needed. Else the profiles not working independent. We are using<br>
different profiles with different settings in our environment, wit "-P<br>
profile -no-remote" and it's working fine. Clicking a link in<br>
thunderbird is working.<br>
<br>
One of our profiles (that for internet usage) is defined as "with no<br>
parameter open this", maybe missing this default the link needs always a<br>
profile parameter.<br>
<br>
<br>
Am 08.08.2019 um 22:02 schrieb Stephen Dowdy:<br>
> On 8/8/19 1:52 PM, Thane K. Sherrington wrote:<br>
>> As I understand it, I can create two profiles in Firefox and then<br>
>> open Firefox with:<br>
>><br>
>> -no-remote -P "Profile1"<br>
>><br>
>> -no-remote -P "Profile2"<br>
>><br>
>> And have two instances of FF running with different profiles. That<br>
>> appears to work, but when I click a link in my email (Thunderbird)<br>
>> then either I get a message saying that FF is already running, Close<br>
>> or Cancel (if both instances are running) or if only one instance is<br>
>> running, then the link opens the other instance.<br>
>><br>
>> Is there a way to set one to be a primary instance?<br>
><br>
> Thane,<br>
><br>
> the '-no-remote' is your problem. it says a remote application can't<br>
> issue an openurl call to that instance.<br>
> You're looking for the '-new-instance' on the activation of the two of<br>
> those. then either can accept an openurl remote call.<br>
> (that's probably not what you want, though -- so likely only have<br>
> -no-remote on one of them?)<br>
><br>
> The alternative is changing thunderbird to make explicit calls to a<br>
> THIRD profile instance:<br>
><br>
> firefox -P thunderbird-ffox %u<br>
><br>
> that way it won't affect the other two running profiles.<br>
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