[Bug 234641] Firefox fails to open URLs in a new tab

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            Bug ID: 234641
           Summary: Firefox fails to open URLs in a new tab
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: amd64
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: ports-bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: robert.ayrapetyan at gmail.com

OS: FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p7

After recent upgrade to firefox-64.0_3,1 (from 64.0_2,1 I believe) Firefox
fails to open new URLs in tabs when triggering this operation externally.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create new profile
2. Run firefox using this profile: (firefox -profile path_to_profile)
3. Run firefox --new-tab url

Expected:
New URL should be opened in an active firefox window's tab.

Actual:
"Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you
must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." error
on screen and: "JavaScript error:
jar:file:///usr/local/lib/firefox/omni.ja!/components/XULStore.js, line 60:
Error: Can't find profile directory." in console.

Before update:
1. You can run firefox -profile path_to_profile as many times as you wish. A
new window is created in context of a selected profile
2. You can click links in apps and a new tab will be opened in the active
firefox window
3. You can run: firefox --new-tab url and url will open in a new tab of an
active Firefox window.

After update:
1. You can't run firefox -profile path_to_profile more than once. It show:
"Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you
must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." error
on screen and: "JavaScript error:
jar:file:///usr/local/lib/firefox/omni.ja!/components/XULStore.js, line 60:
Error: Can't find profile directory." in console.
2. Opening links from external apps always create a new window in a "default"
profile context
3. firefox --new-tab url produces same effect as in 1 (error window and error
in console).

Note: when I started to google for a solution, I surprisingly found that
behavior in "Before Update" p.1 is unexpected - Firefox explicitly prevents
running multiple instances with the same profile. This never was true at least
on FreeBSD for me.

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