[Gllug] Firefox

[Peter Childs]

2009/10/28 Matthew King <matthew.king at monnsta.net>

> JLMS <jjllmmss at googlemail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Tethys <sta296 at astradyne.co.uk> wrote:
> >> --------
> >> (apparently the idea
> >> of a shared home directory is alien to the Firefox developers).
> >>
> >
> > Which reasons are there to use shared home directories?
> >
> > Desktop users (which are the ones expected to be using firefox) should
> > have his own home directory each associated to their respective uid.
>
> I think you misunderstand 'shared'.
>
> My wife's computer in the bedroom, and the computer in the front room,
> have the same $HOME shared with NFS. She can only use FF on one of these
> computers at a time.
>
> Me, I understand that I have to jump through profile hoops to get it to
> work, she as a 'Desktop user' is simply told, incorrectly, that a copy
> of FF is already running.
>
> More frustratingly, if you simply delete the lock files, FF runs happily
> on the second machine and there are likely only a few instances when
> only one needs access to a particular file or database. I don't
> recommend doing this though as FF is likely to destroy your home, steal
> your children and set fire to the dog.
>
>
Deleting the locks (which is some time necessary anyway when firefox crashes
badly) can also lose your book marks and firefox will need what
come pretty close to a reinstall to work again. (Well strictly speaking you
need to delete the profile and start again)

Put simply Firefox hates any machine where a user can login in multiple
locations at the same time, Weather that be using Shard Home Directory (Not
shared between uses but shared between computers) or Thin Clients.

Any piece of software which can't cope with this really should be running on
DOS or Windows 3.1.... (Even modern versions of Windows have some concept of
multiple sessions...)

Peter.
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