[Gllug] Firefox

[Matthew King]

"Walter Stanish" <walter.stanish at saffrondigital.com> writes:

>> Vaguely related is that fact that Firefox is entirely single 
>> user. It simply isn't set up to allow you to run multiple 
>> instances concurrently (apparently the idea of a shared 
>> home directory is alien to the Firefox developers).
>
> I'm sure you can run as many copies as you want using 
> command line parameters and config files.  Unfortunately
> no time to check at the mo' (no Linux firefox handy). OTOH
> if it's not possible I would be hiiiiiiighly surprised and
> you would have made a good point.  Anyone care to check 
> this one out?

You can run as many as you wish, provided each has its own
profile. That's the whole profile, including stuff which could be easily
shared between multiple instances (ie. pretty much everything).

> On a related note, as a quick hack to support a shared home
> between mutually distinct boxes, try remounting your
> /mnt/nfs/shared-home/.mozilla (or whatever the preferences
> dir is called) with tmpfs (or similar), then copy in any 
> config you wish to use.  You can even edit the SQLite DBs
> by writing a little tool in any SQLite-supporting language.
> Works a treat!  (I actually remount the whole shared home,
> but that's more to support one large read-only nfs mount
> of my diskless images.  A custom script performs a
> series of remounts early in system startup...)

Just .... no.

Matthew

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