firefox on two displays

[Felix Miata]

On 06/10/22 Karl Auer apparently typed:

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

> The sequence to get the message is very simple and absolutely
> repeatable:

> - start firefox on one display (it starts, works fine)
> - attempt to start firefox on other display (get message)
> - close dialogue box, close first firefox
> - now firefox will start on other display.

> Web mentions of this message suggest it is a profile conflict or a
> locked profile. While those should not be the causes in this case, it
> does seem to be related to profiles. If I start with -ProfileManager and
> create/select a different profile, firefox starts up on the second
> display just fine. However, I obviously don't have all my settings.

> I can't see any reason why firefox would care what display it was on.

I have no dual display systems, so have no personal experience with or
ability to test this. However, I believe this is a problem with no easy
current solution, and and "easy" solution would require an upstream fix.
IOW, you'll need to look for an existing bugzilla.mozilla.org bug, and if
you don't find one, open one, because I think FF simply has not been
designed to do what you want.

If you absolutely have to have FF open on both displays at the same time
using the "same" settings, you'll need to clone your profile to a second
profile, modify the second profile's prefs.js file to point to the correct
directory, and open FF on the other display using the second profile after
exporting MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1. If you are using FF2, instead of MOZ_NO_REMOTE
you can use the command line switch -no-remote.

For any more explanation, you'll probably need to visit the mozilla
newsgroups, irc://moznet/firefox or mozillazine and pose your problem there.
Possibly if you start with ubuntu-devel the ubuntu developers might be able
to assist or provide upstream with a solution.
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