Multiple firefoxen

Scott J. Henson scotth at csee.wvu.edu
Sat Jul 15 19:26:03 UTC 2006


Derek Broughton 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!  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 don't believe so.  Firefox wants to lock its data stores 
to prevent corruption.

-- 
Scott Henson
LCSEE Systems Staff
WVU MAE Undergraduate
Ubuntu User





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