[Gllug] Mozilla 1.3 SRPM on RedHat 7.2

[Huw Lynes]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:13:51 +0000
Tethys <tet at accucard.com> wrote:

> 
> James de Lurker writes:
> 
> >   One user (me) has five profiles set up for mozilla, including the
> >default one. Another user (linda) has two specially defined profiles
> >in addition to the default one. Both users start from a profile
> >selection dialogue.
> 
> Finally... someone that actually uses profiles in Mozilla. *Why*?
> I thought they were put in so that multiple users on Windows could
> share the machine. On Unix OSen, each user has their own login
> anyway, so what's the point of profiles? Other than to annoy me
> and make Mozilla unusable (you can't have the two instances of
> the same profile in use concurrently, which I need to do).
> 
To get round the two mozillas running at once you need to put a wrapper script around mozilla with a bit of intelligence in it. Using the "mozilla -remote" family of commands. e.g.

mozilla -remote "ping()" to see if moz is running
mozilla -remote "OpenURL(http://yourhomepage, new-window)" spawns a new mozilla window off the existing one.

I agree it's a bit of a bitch to have to do this yourself. I have no idea why this stuff is not in the default mozilla startup script.


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