Re: Thunderbird 1.5 for solaris available on mozilla.org

On 2006-01-23 20:30, Michael Tosch wrote:

> Unlike our Thunderbird 1.0.4 built from the sources, this binary
> distribution cannot start multiple instances of Thunderbird 1.5.
> 
> If I do so, the second instance of Thunderbird hangs.
> If I then exit the first instance, the second instance produces
> a popup saying:
> "Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding".
> 
> The same happens if I have specified thunderbird in firefox as
> network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
> and I click on a "mailto:" link.
> 
> Also vise versa, one cannot start multiple instances of
> Firefox 1.5.
> A command "firefox http://www.sun.com" hangs, and if the first
> instance is quit, there comes the popup
> "Firefox is already running, but is not responding".
> 
> Our OS:
> SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc

Bug in Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5. Will be fixed in 1.5.0.1 AFAIU.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312154

My workaround in the meantime is to use the Firefox/Thunderbird 1.0.x 
start script.

/MOL