Chroot for FC9 - firefox opens a window instead of new session

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 16:45:54 UTC 2008


On Saturday 04 October 2008 13:33:31 B Wooster wrote:

> The chroot environment shares /tmp and hence all of X display with the
> main host. Is there a way to trick firefox into not locating the
> firefox running outside the chroot? I suspect it is the sharing of the
> tmp folder that allows firefox to get at this info., But I need to
> share the /tmp to make X11 work well in the chroot.

Run firefox with a -P option to use a new "profile" for the other instance.




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