On Thu, October 30, 2008 09:56, lists-centos wrote:

you can do this by putting:

setenv MOZ_NO_REMOTE 1

in your .cshrc (i'll let you figure out the bash equiv if that's what you're using).

and then use (e.g., in your icon's properties entry):

/usr/bin/firefox -SelectProfile %u

to start an instance.

This works. Thank you. The magical invocation is:

Edit ~/.bashrc or /etc/bashrc and add:

# Force Mozilla (Firefox) to prompt for profiles # and start as separate instances for each. MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1; export MOZ_NO_REMOTE # Then invoke via "firefox -SelectProfile %u"

Log out and restart the desktop to get the changes to take effect for the panel and menus. Changes made to ~/.bashrc or /etc/bashrc are picked up with each new terminal window opened and do not require a logout or source command if you invoke Firefox from the command line instead.

Many thanks. Now I can lose myself in the madness of model-model, view, controller xml.... wheeeee....