I'm using Firefox and Thunderbird profiles for different activities and have them running as separated instances (processes) on different virtual desktops.
This works great in general. But a big issue is that I can't directly open links from mails. I just get the message "Firefox is already running, but is not responding…"
Is there a way to configure the url handler such that it will open the site in a Firefox instance with a certain profile?
I already tried to set the preference
network.protocol-handler.app.http to /usr/bin/firefox -P myprofile , but that didn't change anything.
Best Answer
I found a fix at the link below. The additional instructions in comment #4 were necessary for me and hopefully will make it work for you.
http://hsmak.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/howto-force-thunderbird-to-open-links-in-firefox/