Like <email address hidden>, I also upgraded to FF39.0 in Fedora linux and discovered this feature broken again. The behavior seems nondeterministic now. I'm executing this command when no firefox instance with profile "myprofile" is currenty running:
firefox -P myprofile -remote 'ping()'
Sometimes I just get the prompt back with no visible side effect, sometimes I get a new instance of firefox that's already running using a different profile, and sometimes I get these error messages:
Like <email address hidden>, I also upgraded to FF39.0 in Fedora linux and discovered this feature broken again. The behavior seems nondeterministic now. I'm executing this command when no firefox instance with profile "myprofile" is currenty running:
firefox -P myprofile -remote 'ping()'
Sometimes I just get the prompt back with no visible side effect, sometimes I get a new instance of firefox that's already running using a different profile, and sometimes I get these error messages:
1437410472556 addons.xpi-utils ERROR Failed to load XPI JSON data from profile: TypeError: XPIProvider. installLocation sByName is null (resource: //gre/modules/ addons/ XPIProvider. jsm -> resource: //gre/modules/ addons/ XPIProviderUtil s.js:312: 4) JS Stack trace: <email address hidden>:312:5 < <email address hidden>:629:24 < XPIDB_asyncLoad DB/this. _dbPromise< @XPIProviderUti ls.js:732: 9 < <email address hidden>:867:23 < <email address hidden>:746:7 < this.PromiseWal ker.scheduleWal kerLoop/ <@Promise- backend. js:688: 37 < <email address hidden>:464:9 ations is null (resource: //gre/modules/ addons/ XPIProvider. jsm:3365) JS Stack trace: <email address hidden>:3365:1 < <email address hidden>:779:9 < <email address hidden>:650:7 < XPIDB_asyncLoad DB/this. _dbPromise< @XPIProviderUti ls.js:732: 9 < <email address hidden>:867:23 < <email address hidden>:746:7 < this.PromiseWal ker.scheduleWal kerLoop/ <@Promise- backend. js:688: 37 < <email address hidden>:464:9 getAddonByID: TypeError: this._plugins is null (resource: //gre/modules/ addons/ GMPProvider. jsm:581: 8) JS Stack trace: <email address hidden>:581:9 < <email address hidden>:235:12 < <email address hidden>:2109:1 < <email address hidden>:311:7 < <email address hidden>:2114:13 < <email address hidden>:423:7 < <email address hidden>:235:12 < <email address hidden>:2109:1 < <email address hidden>:311:7 < <email address hidden>:2114:13 < <email address hidden>:3824:7 < makeSafe/ <@XPIProviderUt ils.js: 145:17 < <email address hidden>:126:5 < this.XPIDatabas e.getAddon/ <@XPIProviderUt ils.js: 1074:9 < <email address hidden>:867:23 < <email address hidden>:746:7 < this.PromiseWal ker.scheduleWal kerLoop/ <@Promise- backend. js:688: 37 < <email address hidden>:464:9
1437410472559 addons.xpi-utils WARN Rebuilding add-ons database from installed extensions.
1437410472561 addons.xpi-utils ERROR Failed to rebuild XPI database from installed extensions: TypeError: this.installLoc
1437410472563 addons.manager ERROR Exception calling provider GMPProvider.