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 <[email protected]> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > Enterprise mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to > > [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" > > > -- > Dirk Schneider > Landeskriminalamt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern > Dezernat 12-3 / Systemadministration > Retgendorfer Str. 09 > 19067 Rampe > Tel: +49 3866 64-1233 > Fax: +49 3866 64-1250 > Mail: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Enterprise mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to > [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" >
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