[Gllug] Guardian says Firefox is rubbish

Matt Blissett matt at blissett.me.uk
Tue Jul 8 20:11:46 UTC 2008


Tethys wrote:
> Rob Crowther writes:
> 
>>> 1. You can only run it once at a time,
>>
>>Add -no-remote to your shortcut and you can run it as many times as you
>>have profiles.
> 
> But I don't want that. I want to run it multiple times on the same
> machine with the same profile. I can give you two concrete examples
> to when this is desirable:
> 
> Situation 1: I've left myself logged in to my desktop, with firefox
> up and running.
...
> Situation 2: I'm running firefox on one machine. I go to another
> machine elsewhere in the house and log in.
...

Both being a common problem for the helpdesk at my university:
<http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/csg/faqs/www.html#rogue>
(Usually it happens after "logging off" via Ctrl+Alt+Backspace)

-- 
Matt

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