Multiple instances of Firefox

swingarm · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 2:16 am Post subject: Multiple instances of Firefox

When I was using Firebird I could start multiple instances of it but if I try to do that with Firefox I always get the Profile Manager popping up wanting me to choose another profile. Is there an easy way to revert to the behavior I had in Firebird?

BTW, I now I could just use the 'New Window' option under 'File' but I've found that when I'm using the virtual desktops it's really handy just to start another instance of Firefox.

Insanity5902 · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 2:44 am Post subject:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=933454#933454

basically edit /usr/bin/firefox

within the first few lines you will see

swingarm · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 2:59 am Post subject:

Thanks for your reply but after editing my /usr/bin/firefox file I still can't open a second instance of Firefox without the Profile Manager popping up wanting me to choose another profile. I know there's a way to do this...

Insanity5902 · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 3:22 am Post subject:

try doing a killall - 9 firefox-bin then try to open mulitple windows.
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swingarm · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 3:39 am Post subject:

Well I opened Firefox ran the killall command and the Firefox window closed. I then ran the killall command again, opened up Firefox, and then tried to open up a second instance but I still get the Profile Window.

I hate to do this but I forgot to menetion I'm actually using the CVS version of Firefox becasue of problems I had with the regular Firefox. The problem I had was that after opening one window I couldn't get another window to open(nothing, not even the profile manager), after closing Firefox and attempting to open again I still got nothing. Only after killiing all of the Firefox processes was I able to open Firefox again.