firefox on two displays

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Mon Oct 23 09:58:10 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 11:48 +0200, albi albinootje wrote:
> > It does this even when the lock file has been removed; how does it know?
> 
> there's also a .parentlock file, perhaps that's the reason ?

Yup. Zotted the .parentlock file and a second process started without
problems. I'm guessing that the last firefox to exit wins as far as
saving config etc goes.

> as long as your (imho luxury) request has not been fulfilled/merged by
> the firefox-developers i suggest you use another browser, like
> epiphany-browser, on the other display 

Nah - I'll just clone my profile :-)

Regards, K.

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