<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/28 Matthew King <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthew.king@monnsta.net">matthew.king@monnsta.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">JLMS <<a href="mailto:jjllmmss@googlemail.com">jjllmmss@googlemail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Tethys <<a href="mailto:sta296@astradyne.co.uk">sta296@astradyne.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
>> --------<br>
>> (apparently the idea<br>
>> of a shared home directory is alien to the Firefox developers).<br>
>><br>
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> Which reasons are there to use shared home directories?<br>
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> Desktop users (which are the ones expected to be using firefox) should<br>
> have his own home directory each associated to their respective uid.<br>
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</div>I think you misunderstand 'shared'.<br>
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My wife's computer in the bedroom, and the computer in the front room,<br>
have the same $HOME shared with NFS. She can only use FF on one of these<br>
computers at a time.<br>
<br>
Me, I understand that I have to jump through profile hoops to get it to<br>
work, she as a 'Desktop user' is simply told, incorrectly, that a copy<br>
of FF is already running.<br>
<br>
More frustratingly, if you simply delete the lock files, FF runs happily<br>
on the second machine and there are likely only a few instances when<br>
only one needs access to a particular file or database. I don't<br>
recommend doing this though as FF is likely to destroy your home, steal<br>
your children and set fire to the dog.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Deleting the locks (which is some time necessary anyway when firefox crashes badly) can also lose your book marks and firefox will need what come pretty close to a reinstall to work again. (Well strictly speaking you need to delete the profile and start again)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Put simply Firefox hates any machine where a user can login in multiple locations at the same time, Weather that be using Shard Home Directory (Not shared between uses but shared between computers) or Thin Clients.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any piece of software which can't cope with this really should be running on DOS or Windows 3.1.... (Even modern versions of Windows have some concept of multiple sessions...)</div><div><br></div><div>
Peter.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>