firefox on two displays

[Paul Williams]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 09:03 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 00:38 +0200, albi albinootje wrote:
> > > If I open Firefox 1.5 on one display, any attempt to open another
> > > Firefox window on the other display results in the message "Firefox is
> > > already running, but is not responding".
> > 
> > that's understandable, you don't want 2 sessions to be writing 2 different
> > cache/bookmarks/history etc. to the same files
> 
> I can open as many firefox windows as I like on one display, all writing
> the same cache/bookmarks/history etc. No problem. But I can't open a new
> window on a *different* display without setting up a different profile.
> I don't see why not - it's just a display...
> 
Can't you just open a new window (file > new window) in Firefox on the
other desktop?
> > start firefox with the ProfileManager and create a new profile
> > 
> > firefox -ProfileManager
> 
> Yes, well, thank you for reading my original message so carefully.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
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> 
Thanks,
Paul Williams (paul at smoothweb.net) | Jabber: pwill at jabber.org
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