Hi,
I’m new to manjaro and I would like to run Firefox browser. However I get an error message that another instance is already running, what is not true.
After reading on forum/internet i have to set an environement variable in the /etc/environment file as following:
MOZ_DBUS_REMOTE=1
I reboot system and tried again, but I still have the same issue.
So what did I do wrong ?
This is a fresh installation of Manjaro with a fresh profile. I worked under Ubuntu for 7 years without having such issue so I do not understand what is the issue. I installed FF using sudo pacman -Syu firefox.
I even tried to downgrade it as some posts on internet suggested it, but nothing works.
You should make sure that no Firefox processes are running before you remove any lock files from your profile & do any other steps such as setting directory permissions.
You can try launching Firefox in terminal with firefox -p.
This opens the chooser - and from here, instead of your main profile, I suggest you create a new profile - call it alain maybe.
If that works, then there is something wrong with the old profile folder - but you can still recover some data from there, or by simply synchronising the new one.
While you’re there, check for ‘lock’ files which block multiple instances of Firefox on the same profile - if you close Firefox but this file still exists, then Firefox sees that file as evidence there’s still a Firefox running… it’s a dumb check not smart.