Re: firefox issues with profiles

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

I would guess that it probably depends upon how it was configured and
the version of gecko.

In addition to the version rooted under /opt/garnome, I also have a CVS
version of firefox-1.0+ built under gnome-2.6 , rooted under /usr/. If I
use this version, I cannot start two separate instances of firefox from
the command line.  I get a dialog box popping up that tells me another
version is already running, but is not responding. Looks like the second
instance trying to connect to the first instance in some way. When I
close the dialog a gecko error is reported:

        (Gecko:13451): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_main_quit: assertion
        `main_loops != NULL' failed

BTW,  can you print from the version of firefox built by garnome-2.10.1?
I can't, but can print from the other version I built which has a
different configuration.  I am rebuilding the garnome version of firefox
now to see if the configuration is the problem.


-Joseph

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On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 15:03 -0700, Raul Acevedo wrote:
> Why would it only give these problems with the GARNOME firefox, but not
> the regular install?
> 
> Raul
> 
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 18:00 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> > Seems that a firefox profile can have only one user at a time. Take a
> > look at the firefox start up script, which is a shell script.
> > 
> > 
> > -Joseph
> > 
> > =========================================================
> > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 14:42 -0700, Raul Acevedo wrote:
> > > If I execute firefox a second time (i.e. open one window, then start
> > > firefox again while that one is still open), instead of getting a new
> > > window, I get the profile manager telling me I need to pick a profile to
> > > run; if I choose default (the only one I have) I get an error saying
> > > that profile is already in use.
> > > 
> > > Also, on the first window, it always asks if I want to make firefox my
> > > default browser, even if I have already said yes to that in the past.
> > > 
> > > This only happens with the firefox that GARNOME builds.  I normally run
> > > the firefox I download and install from mozilla.org, and that works just
> > > fine.  Removing my ~/.mozilla directory doesn't make a difference.
> > > 
> > > What's going on?
> > > 
> > > Raul
> > > 
> > -- 
> > joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net
> > 
> 
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