Re: Firefox oddity

yea, it pisses me off. the firefox developers did this on purpose, as
a "convience". you also can't start two completely independent
sessions.

On 2007 Dec 08 (Sat) at 00:15:53 -0500 (-0500), Jason Dixon wrote:
:This isn't a *BSD question per se, but I thought someone may have run into this
:before.
:
:I noticed some strange behavior today with Firefox running over X11Forwarding.
:I was logged into a local machine where I started firefox. I then logged into a
:remote system and ran firefox from there. Even though firefox *should* have
:been running separately on the cpu of each system, the Firefox that was started
:*first* would always "grab" the session and force it to become a managed window
:of its own. These systems are not using any shared (e.g. NFS) homes or disks,
:so they wouldn't have access to the same dotfiles. Process list on the latter
:system would reveal no firefox processes, while a "pkill firefox" on the former
:would indeed kill all Firefox windows.
:
:Has anyone encountered this before? I'm somewhat surprised that I've never seen
:this type of thing in all the years I've used X. I've been able to reproduce
:this on Linux and OpenBSD.
:
:Thanks,
:Jason
:
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