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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, David Brown 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.
>
> 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)

I'd much prefer the 'new' behaviour that your fix adds. :)

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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