James B. Byrne wrote:
Rushton Martin wrote:
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.
This firefox invocation inhibits the surprising behavior:
firefox -new-instance -no-remote
BTW, thanks for the up-thread patch!
You will see the same effect on MicroSoft Domains with users using roaming profiles. They leave one host with FF open and go to another, log on and try, vainly, to start FF in the new session. I presume this has to do with preventing destructive overwrites of the user's profile but it is annoying. Not a Linux problem though.
Best regards,