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Bug 82040 - Using Firefox with NB on OS X requires manual browser restart
Summary: Using Firefox with NB on OS X requires manual browser restart
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 76970
Alias: None
Product: ide
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Extbrowser (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: All Mac OS X
: P4 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@ide
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Reported: 2006-08-07 10:05 UTC by Tomasz Slota
Modified: 2008-09-02 19:01 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Tomasz Slota 2006-08-07 10:05:10 UTC 
Quote from user's feedback:

I've set Firefox a default browser of NetBeans.
And it works, but not as I expected. Every time,
before re-running the Web application I need
to quit Firefox.
Otherwise, I see next error message:
"Firefox is already running...".

I've set the "Browser Executable" field of
advanced options to:
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox
Comment 1 Tomasz Slota 2006-08-07 14:16:29 UTC 
Mac version of Firefox does not seem to support the remote command interface that we are using for 
other Unix systems to communicate with already started browser. I have sent inquiry to the mozilla team: 

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2416310

Decreasing priority as the problem is affecting a small fraction of users (most Mac-lovers will stick to 
Safari browser) and there are easy workarounds - set Firefox as default browser
Comment 2 Tomasz Slota 2006-08-07 14:20:30 UTC 
I meant default *OS X* browser (Safari-Preferences-Default Web Browser)
Comment 3 Karthikeyan Rajeswaran 2007-07-08 01:19:40 UTC 
See also: http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=76970
Comment 4 Peter Zavadsky 2008-09-02 19:01:27 UTC 

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 76970 ***