[Gllug] Mozilla profile problem

Fri Sep 27 11:24:16 UTC 2002

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:

	http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147160