Multiple firefoxen

[albi]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:36:05 -0300
Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> If I have firefox running in a session, start another X session for
> the same user, and try to start firefox in that session, firefox says
> it's already in use and I can't do that!  That is sooooo not *nix!

there's a reason why firefox uses a lockfile etc.

> Is there a way to make it allow multiple firefoxes?  The crazy thing
> is that it has no problem opening two copies of the browser in the
> _same_ session. -- 

i'd say : try the ProfileManager of firefox if you really want this
(firefox -ProfileManager)