Batch file

[Leo "TheHobbit" Cacciari]

Il 06/29/2011 06:05 PM, Bill Stanley ha scritto:
> A friend of mine has a bad habit of opening too many instances of the
> firefox browser.   I've told her that it is unnecessary to create a new
> instance when it is easier and faster to just create a new tab.  She
> tries to open a tab instead and likes it.  The problem is that it is an
> ingrained habit with her and she reverts back to opening a new instance
> instead of opening a new tab.  As a result, she often runs short on
> memory and the computer slows down when forced to use swap memory.  (Her
> computer is a mid-aged laptop with the RAM maxed out to 2 GBytes.)
> 
> That is the background.  A possible solution is to replace the launcher
> for Firefox with a batch file (or script) which will launch Firefox
> after checking if the Firefox program is running.  I envision a batch
> file (or script) that would run ps to check if it firefox is a running
> process.  If it is a running process, the batch file would ask if she
> really wants another instance of firefox.  It seems like an easy thing
> to do.  (I often created old DOS batch files and these should be very
> similar to Linux batch files (or scripts).  Any ideas about better ways
> of doing this or suggestions on how to implement this?
> 

AFAIK is already the case. First, firefox is a link to a script, I did
not read the script, but if you click on the firefox menu entry, you
still have only one firefox-bin process running...


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