Guest SDMF Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 When I was running mozilla 1.1, I put a launcher in my panel to start mozilla. I removed mozilla 1.1 completely and created a similar launcher for 1.2.1. When I click this new launcher, it does start correctly, but if I try to click it again, it tells me that I must choose another profile. Anyone know why this is happenning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 I don't know why this appens but if you want to open another mozilla windows simply press CTRL-N and problem is solved. This is what I do... MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 It happens because you can only have one instance of mozilla running at the same time in linux for a single user. using CTRL+N or File->New->Navigator Window only opens another mozilla window it doesn't create a new instance of the mozilla program so if you had a signal 11 crash in a mozilla window all open windows of mozilla would crash. If you happened to open a console and su'ed, if you typed mozilla it would open a new instance of mozilla as user root so it would use root's profile so if you had a signal 11 crash in the user instance of mozilla only windows opened as that user would crash, the root windows would remain. Why they have made it like this? i don't know, i am after all an idiot. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SDMF Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 Well, with 1.1 I can click on the launcher a number of times, and it does not tell me that I have to choose another profile. Is this something that is new with 1.2.1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 It's probably new yes. I have Netscape 7 and it acts same way either. :( MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SDMF Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 Well if that's the case, then it is kinda silly IMO. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest duir66 Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 If you haven't tried using the tabs feature in Moz you really need to. It prevents having to open multiple instances of the same program and does seem to be quite a bit less taxing than having more than one window open at a time. NS7 and Opera also has this feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SDMF Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 Trying it out right now, picked up some info on keyboard shortcuts for tabbed browsing from mozilla.org, too. Thanks for the idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 mozilla has allways had this behavior at least when installed from there installer. I think mandrake has changed the initiation script on there mozilla install so that if it's already open it just opens a new window, will have too look Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 Ok had a look through the mozilla shell script in /usr/bin If it detects mozilla is running it just opens a new window, not a new instance So if you want your new mozilla to run like the old one edit the file and change the file paths to that of the new version. Note you would have to move all the plugins if you did that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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