firefox on two displays
Karl Auer
kauer at biplane.com.au
Sun Oct 22 23:03:12 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 00:38 +0200, albi albinootje wrote:
> > 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
I can open as many firefox windows as I like on one display, all writing
the same cache/bookmarks/history etc. No problem. But I can't open a new
window on a *different* display without setting up a different profile.
I don't see why not - it's just a display...
> start firefox with the ProfileManager and create a new profile
>
> firefox -ProfileManager
Yes, well, thank you for reading my original message so carefully.
Regards, K.
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