open mozilla more than once

fourhead · Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 11:13 pm Post subject: open mozilla more than once

hi i know this has been posted a few times, but there's never been a solution to it. whenever one instance of mozilla is running, and you try to open up another one, you only see the mozilla profile manager, telling you that the profile can't be loaded because it is in use. this is a very disturbing behaviour, and i don't know how to fix it.

is there anybody who has solved this problem?

tom

Frodg · l33t Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 761

The only way I got it to work was by setting up a second profile - it now automatically starts the second instance using the second profile...
Very clumsy work around but it works for me at the moment.

I would like to find a better solution
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filR · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 73 Location: Austria

i had the same problem with mozilla.
with firefox i only experience it occasionally. (most of the time i can run "firefox" several times and have several browsers open)

i am still not sure if this instance / profile thing is a bug or a feature. probably both. ;)

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