WAMP: How to fix “Firefox is already running” error

Question

I am running WAMP server and Windows-7.

This seems to be a Windows-7 specific issue, because this did not happen in either Vista or XP. Whenever I have Firefox already running (such as from a shortcut) and then I try and open the phpMyAdmin link from the taskbar menu, I get a “Firefox is already running” error.

My only solution is to close all of my FireFox windows, (which is a pain since I will only have to re-open them.) and then use the taskbar shortcut.

It seems not to happen if it is the first window I open.

I would love to not have to do this everytime. Is there a registry patch that can split separate FireFox instances into separate processes?

Answer 1

I think you are using Portable Firefox. If not, is the PHPMyAdmin link a simple .url hyperlink? (I don't think so) If it is, then iI recommend you make another Firefox shortcut and in the arguments, add the PHPMyAdmin panel link. Lastly, I recommend XAMPP over WAMP.