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I have a roaming profile set up for myself on my network (via Group Policy based redirection of My Docs and Desktop). Sometimes, I need to access a remote computer via RDC with the same credentials I am logged on to my local computer with, so I effectively have my own profile open twice on two computers.

I've noticed two peculiar (and frustrating!) outcomes of this:

  1. Firefox always asks to check my add-ons are compatible with the current version of FF when I go to a different workstation
  2. When I try to open Firefox simultaneously on the local and remote machine I get the message "Firefox is already open but not responding".

Any way to avoid this?

Shinrai
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just.another.programmer
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First Update to the same version on both sides. This should fix issue 1.

Second When you open Firefox it creates a Parent.lock in the sub folder of "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Profiles" this is what causes that message. It can't be deleted while Firefox is open easily.

I don't know if your second request is plausible, if someone else knows a way let me know, so I'd recommend Multiple profiles:

Modify your firefox shortcut to be: 

"...\firefox.exe" -p -no-remote

This will allow you to open a second profile which you could name Remote, for instance and have the two separate profiles open on each computer.

As far as I know Firefox will not let you open the same profile twice as this could cause some major corruption.

Jeff F.
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