[Gllug] Firefox

[- Tethys]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Walter Stanish
<walter.stanish at saffrondigital.com> wrote:

>>> 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.
>
> What's your issue with this?

Just.... no! What you're talking about has nothing to do with the
merits or otherwise of running a diskless workstation. It's a nasty
hack to work around unnecessary limitations in the application. I'm
sure it works. My complaint is that I shouldn't need to resort to
things like this just to get multiple instances of Firefox to run
concurrently. I want to just run the app and have it work. The only
reason I can't do that is the ineptitude of the Firefox developers.

Tet

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