Multiple Desktops and Firefox

Smoot Carl-Mitchell smoot at tic.com
Mon Oct 5 23:51:51 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 17:32 -0400, Keith Clark wrote:
> > > 
> Actually, I just opened an instance of Firefox on Workspace 1 with
> Applications>Internet>Firefox Web Browser and then opened a second one
> on Workspace 2 using the same method.  I can close either one
> independently of the other.
> 
> However, I cannot File>Quit one independently.  Quitting causes all tabs
> and windows to close.  Closing just affects the window that you are
> closing.

I believe there is just one instance of FF running at any given time.
The startup script wrapper for FF checks to see if FF is already
running.  As you have discovered, the Close menu items closes the
current window.  The Quit exits FF proper.
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