I would like to open a new instance of Firefox. I tried
firefox -no-remote
and
MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox
as detailed in the docs. However I keep getting the message
Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window,
you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.
How can I launch a new instance of Firefox from command line?
Answer
The -no-remote option is used for running multiple Firefox profiles at the same time. You are getting the "Firefox is already running" message because you are trying to open a second Firefox instance with the same profile.
You should be using this option as follows:
firefox -no-remote -P "Another Profile"
or
firefox -no-remote -profile "profile_path"
where profile_path
is an absolute or relative (to firefox.exe) path.
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