[Gllug] Mozilla profile problem

will will at hellacool.co.uk
Fri Sep 27 11:40:46 UTC 2002


Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On Sep 27 2002, Will was overheard saying:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I just upgraded from mozilla 1.0 RC1 to mozilla 1.0.1, but now I have a 
>>problem. I have an icon for mozilla on my panel/taskbar to launch a new 
>> mozilla window, now when I click it it it works fine the first time, but 
>>any time I click on it when there is already a mozilla window open alrady I 
>>get an error that my profile is in use, here is the error:
>>
>>http://haiku.hellacool.co.uk/snapshot1.png
>>
>>and the only way to launch another window is from the existing mozilla 
>>window. I then have to move the new mozilla window to the correct desktop 
>>which is a pain.
>>
>>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.
> 
> 
> Just change the icon's launch command from 'mozilla' to 
> 'mozilla -remote xfeDoCommand (openBrowser)' and you should be set. I
> don't particularly like the new behaviour either, but that's life.
> More info on the link below.
> 
> 	http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html

I gave it a go, but it didn;t seem to work, I have re-installed mozilla-1.0rc2.

Thanks for the help Stig.

Will


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