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["Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Aug 10, David Brown [dmlb2000 AT gmail.com] wrote:
> I attach an xfce panel button to the firefox script and find it quite
> annoying to keep getting the profile manager when I forget to close
> firefox on another desktop.
> 
> I've changed the script in devel to act a little differently and would
> like other's opinions on the change in behaviour.

I've run firefox like this ever since they got -remote() working in it, and
ran mozilla and netscape like that years before.  It much improves the
experience IMO, especially if you often run browsers on multiple desktops.
The main thing to watch out for is any firefox-bin instances that are
running when they shouldn't be due to hangs; the profile manager popping up
when you don't think you have anything running is a good way to notice
this, but when it stops popping up you can miss that things are awry.
However, firefox doesn't really leave itself hanging around like this any
more in my experience, and hasn't for some time.

> Now when I running the firefox script it first checks to see if
> firefox is currently running and if so trys to remotely open a new
> firefox window with the profile currently running. You can still
> specify a different profile by passing the -P <profile> arguments to
> firefox and it will ignore trying to remote.
> 
> if this doesn't quite make sence here's the run down:
> What it used to do:
> 1) $ firefox (opens a new firefox window with the default profile)
> 2) $ firefox (opens the profile manager because the default profile is
> already in use so it asks to select a different profile)
> 
> What it does now:
> 1) $ firefox (opens a new firefox window with the default profile)
> 2) $ firefox (opens another firefox window with the current running
> default profile)
> 3) repeat 2 as much as you like new windows will keep poping up with
> the default profile
> 4) $ firefox -P <profile> (opens a firefox window with the profile 
> specified)

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