On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:50:10AM -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 14:40 +0000, Rushton Martin wrote:
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Another Firefox "funny" to be aware of occurs if you have a $HOME shared between multiple machines. Firefox will refuse to start on the second machine whilst the first is running Firefox, it believes that there is already an instance running. Rebooting the second machine will not help. The quick-and-dirty way around this is to log in as a different user (and hence different $HOME) on the second machine.
That sort of stuff gets my back up, wondering who the hell is making these design changes. Not folks that are aware of how stuff is used in the "real world? Not folks who understand the concept of "regression testing"? Not folks who look outside their walls and solicit comment from their victims? I don't know, but I get obnoxiously resistant (often to my own detriment) in such cases and tend to do things like my patch.
I've been using a network filesystem for $HOME for decades, and Firefox (and Netscape Navigator before it) has always been this way. Not a design change. What would be nice is if Firefox used the /run/user/$UID/ directory for per-instance files instead of a directory in $HOME. Y'know, like Gnome 3 does. :)