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Having a running Firefox installed, I want to start Firefox Portable downloaded from heise. On Windows I'm running FirefoxPortable.exe -no-remote
which was posted here, but always get the error: Another instance of Firefox is already running. Please close all other instances of Firefox before you try to start Firefox Portable Edition.
Things I tried:
set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
FirefoxPortable.exe -CreateProfile test -no-remote
FirefoxPortable.exe -ProfileManager -no-remote
It's not a duplicate of this question since the author seems to start two instances of the same firefox installation (which also has the same default profile). In my case, I have a installed firefox instance (default profile folder %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
). The portable firefox seems to use the path Data\profile
relative to FirefoxPortable.exe
.
How can I start multiple Firefox instances? Is the -no-remote
switch from the Firefox docs not working any more?
I'm using the latest portable version 65 of Firefox.
Possible duplicate of "Firefox is already running" with -no-remote
– Entropy0 – 2019-03-21T13:27:03.313I don't see as a duplicate since he's starting another instance of the same firefox with the same user profile. Since I have a locally installed instance running and want to start firefox portable, the portable one is using a different profile located in
Data/profile
instead of%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
from installed firefox. – Daniel – 2019-03-22T08:23:08.493