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: > > <snip> > > > 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. :) -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>