The command "firefox" doesn't open a new tab in a working Firefox

When Firefox is running and I try to open a new tab from the shell, for example `firefox -new-tab www.google.com` it will complain that firefox is already running. Obviously it tries to start a new instance instead of communicating with the running one. But I can't figure it out why it behaves as such.
Here's a screenshot:
http://imgur.com/yprXo
This problem happens as of the 9.0 upgrade.

Found the issue.
I was using the -no-remote option to start Firefox from my awesome menu.
I used that since I have two profiles that I use in parallel. It seems in 9.0 -no-remote completely disables the remote controllability of the instance.

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