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,
--
Charles