firefox on two displays

[Karl Auer]

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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