We're calling on all EU-based Mozillians with iOS or iPadOS devices to help us monitor Apple’s new browser choice screens. Join the effort to hold Big Tech to account!

Rechercher dans l’assistance

Évitez les escroqueries à l’assistance. Nous ne vous demanderons jamais d’appeler ou d’envoyer un SMS à un numéro de téléphone ou de partager des informations personnelles. Veuillez signaler toute activité suspecte en utilisant l’option « Signaler un abus ».

En savoir plus

How can I stop from getting the "Firefox is already running" error message when trying to open links and FF has already been opened through a symbolic link?

  • 3 réponses
  • 4 ont ce problème
  • 1 vue
  • Dernière réponse par Kaldari

more options

I use symbolic links and program shortcuts as a way to easily open different Firefox profiles ie. one for casual/personal use and another for work. This works well, but I get the "Firefox is already running, but is not responding" error message if I try to open external links with FF as my default browser. FF is actually open and running fine, but I guess it doesn't acknowledge this fact because of how I'm originally starting the process.

I wasn't able to add the symbolically linked executables to the default program pane. Is there a way to bypass this error or other way to fix this?

The solution to the question linked below is what I'm using to open the different FF profiles.

http://superuser.com/questions/255312/pin-same-app-multiple-times-in-windows-7

I use symbolic links and program shortcuts as a way to easily open different Firefox profiles ie. one for casual/personal use and another for work. This works well, but I get the "Firefox is already running, but is not responding" error message if I try to open external links with FF as my default browser. FF is actually open and running fine, but I guess it doesn't acknowledge this fact because of how I'm originally starting the process. I wasn't able to add the symbolically linked executables to the default program pane. Is there a way to bypass this error or other way to fix this? The solution to the question linked below is what I'm using to open the different FF profiles. http://superuser.com/questions/255312/pin-same-app-multiple-times-in-windows-7

Solution choisie

hello, this is probably happening when you run the default profile with the -no-remote switch. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use

Lire cette réponse dans son contexte 👍 1

Toutes les réponses (3)

more options

Solution choisie

hello, this is probably happening when you run the default profile with the -no-remote switch. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use

more options
more options

That did it. Thanks.