Mozilla Firefox - multiple instances
Marc Williams
marcw at onlymooo.com
Thu Feb 12 19:22:55 UTC 2004
I've seen several queries about how to open multiple instances of
Firefox (nee Firebird) without encountering the dreaded Profile Manager
prompt. I saw this thread on Mozillazine about how to do just that:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=51428
In a nutshell, create this script:
#!/bin/sh
firefox -remote 'ping()'
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
#open a new window
#firefox -remote "openURL(www.google.com, new-window)" &
firefox -remote "openURL(${1}, new-window)" &
else
#open new instance
firefox $1 &
fi
Make it executable, drop it in /usr/bin, and always start Firefox by
calling this script. I also made sure that my file manager, Gentoo,
calls this script, I changed .htmlview appropriately, and I changed all
my firefox desktop and menu icons to point to it as well.
Works like a dream. I suspect it would work similarly for Mozilla as
well but I haven't made such a Mozilla script yet to test.
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