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Execute Firefox and Firefox Developer Edition simultaneously doesn't work anymore (although checkbox in settings is checked).

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Rquadrat
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Since a view days I'm getting an errormessage when I start both browsers saying that firefox is already running but doesn't react and I should stop the running process to open a new window. In Developer Edition's settings I checked the checkbox, that both versions could be executed simultaneously. Developer Edition verson: 55.0b6 (german) Firefox version: :-( can't look since I'm writing this in Developer Edition

Since a view days I'm getting an errormessage when I start both browsers saying that firefox is already running but doesn't react and I should stop the running process to open a new window. In Developer Edition's settings I checked the checkbox, that both versions could be executed simultaneously. Developer Edition verson: 55.0b6 (german) Firefox version: :-( can't look since I'm writing this in Developer Edition

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Make sure you run Developer Edition and release Firefox with separate profiles, and you can use Firefox sync to share your data between both channels.

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Tomatoshadow2
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Make sure you run Developer Edition and release Firefox with separate profiles, and you can use Firefox sync to share your data between both channels.

Rquadrat
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Seems that Firefox was confused over the profiles und attempted to start both with the same. I just didn't think of checking up. Thank you for the quick answer - problem solved! Here is what I did in detail: I started the Profile Manager (there are two profiles: default and developer edition default). From there I started Developer Edition with the corresponding profile ("alway with this profile checked") and it remembered who it belongs to ;-)