[Gllug] Mozilla profile problem

[will]

Tethys wrote:
> will writes:
> 
>>Any ideas what the problem is?  When I did the upgrade I kept my .mozilla 
>>directory, obviously I didn't want to lose my bookmarks and address book etc.
> 
> 
> Yep, the problem is Mozilla's broken profile handling. It won't let you
> have the same profile open by multiple instances of the browser, because
> they corrupt each other.
> 
> I wrote a small patch for the mozilla launcher script, to partially
> work around this (attached). Unfortunately, it doesn't fix the two
> cases where this bites me most:
> 
> - I have a dual headed machine (non-Xinerama), and you can't start up
>   mozilla on both screens
> - When I'm running mozilla at home, and I'm also ssh'ed into work. If
>   I try and launch mozilla from work as well, and display on my home
>   X server, then it just launches a new window frmo the home moz, rather
>   than actually starting a remote moz.
> 
> I have to keep a copy of mozilla-1.0rc2 lying around because that's the
> last version that works properly. This is by far the biggest issue I
> have outstanding with mozilla. *Please* take the time to vote for it
> in bugzilla, so that it gets given a suitable high priority, and gets
> fixed:

I have re-installed mozilla-1.0rc2 (it was that not mozilla-1.0rc1 that I had 
previously installed).  Much better.

Thanks for the help.

Will


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