Firefox in Multiple Windowing Systems

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Sat Feb 2 05:23:46 PST 2008


On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> Anyway, anyone know of a trick to get Firefox to work in
> multiple windowing environments at once? Specifically, I have
> a machine that runs a local Xorg desktop as well as one or
> more Xvnc instances. I don't know how to have a single instance
> of Firefox open windows in more than one windowing environment.
> I'm not sure if it is even possible. A single Firefox may not
> have the ability to talk to more than one at a time.
> 
> I could just run more than one Firefox instance, but Firefox
> does not let a single user run more than one instance on the
> same machine. Getting around that problem is another solution.

Try:

	firefox -no-remote

or:

	firefox -no-remote -P

(-P to start with a different profile.)



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