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  • From: "Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Better approach to firefox script
  • Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:58:28 -0500

On Aug 10, Eric Sandall [eric AT sandall.us] wrote:
> 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)
>
> You may be interested in this Mozilla bug:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135137.

I don't think that's related, that bug is talking about wanting different
GECKO apps to be able to use the same mozilla profile directory.

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