Re: Weird Firefox Problem.

From: David Wright (david_c_wright_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:41:37 +0200

Sean wrote:

> If I start firefox from the menu item it starts fine.
> If I go and start another session of firefox from the menu, I get a busy
> cursor for about 25 seconds or so and the system gets real slow, but the
> session eventually starts.
> If I start firefox from a terminal window with the commnand firefox, I can
> start as many sessions as I like and they start instantly.
> The menu item command is firefox %u, but removing the %u doesn't make any
> difference?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Sean

Don't know what is causing it, but on my system, Firefox doesn't like being
started more than once (i.e. having more than one concurrent session). If
Ff is running and I try and start another copy it complains that the
profile is in use. If I just select open new window/tab, then it is
happy...

Dave

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