firefox on two displays

albi albinootje albinootje at gmail.com
Sun Oct 22 22:38:12 UTC 2006


On 10/23/06, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> I have a dual-head system, with a desktop on each of two displays.
>
> If I open Firefox 1.5 on one display, any attempt to open another
> Firefox window on the other display results in the message "Firefox is
> already running, but is not responding".

that's understandable, you don't want 2 sessions to be writing 2 different
cache/bookmarks/history etc. to the same files

> The open Firefox window is,
> however, working fine.

start firefox with the ProfileManager and create a new profile

firefox -ProfileManager




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