[Gllug] Firefox "no running window found" error

[Huw Lynes]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 00:05:19 +0800
"Hong Chyr" <chyryh at linuxmail.org> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I just manage to break my firefox (0.8). I can't pinpoint exactly what
> happened, but the only thing I did was I installed J2SDK from the Sun
> website.
> 
> So now, whenever I start firefox the only message I got is "no running
> window found." If I have mozilla running already, firefox will start another
> blank window of mozilla.
> 
> I have tried re-installing firefox, clearing out my .phoenix profile and
> even rebooting(!) but still the error is there.
> 

Can't tell you why your firefox isn't working anymore but I can explain the
weird mozilla behaviour. The back-end of all mozilla-based browsers looks the
same. Mostly they are run from a wrapper-script that will check to see if
there is a browser already running, if there is it spawns a window off that
browser. This is a much more efficient thing to do than start a whole new
browser. However the script can't tell the difference between moz, phoenix,
firebird and firefox so if any of the above are running the wrapper script
will spawn a window from them. 

The above may be utterly incoherent. its been a long day.

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