firefox: choose a profile

oleksandr korneta atenrok at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 00:30:50 UTC 2008


on 09/28/2008 08:23 PM Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:19:32 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 20:09 -0400, oleksandr korneta wrote:
>>> fresh install of fedora 9 x86_64. Firefox is the default browser. Every
>>> attempt to open the link from any application outside the firefox
>>> (homepage link in "About" window of any program, link from email
>>> message in thunderbird, conversation window in pidgin) brings up the
>>> firefox profile chooser window, asking "what profile do you want to
>>> use?". Obviously, selecting the current profile does not work because
>>> "it is currently in use" o_O
>>>
>>> "Copy-paste" the links into firefox's address bar works, but having to
>>> do that every time is extremely annoying.
>>>
>>> yes, I've seen such things before, and most of us had to write our own
>>> firefox-remote script to enjoy the flawless work, but it was like... in
>>> 2004!!! I thought this thing has been solved for some time now.
>>>
>>> googling brings nothing -- apparently I'm the only one with this
>>> problem under F9.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>> ----
>> Quit all open copies of firefox
>>
>> delete the file...
>>
>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles/$SOME_SALTED_HASH/.parentlock
>>
>> This is the file that makes it think your profile ^^^^^^ is in use.
>>
>> Craig
> 
> Thanks, problem solved. 

which one? Was Craig referring to your problem or mine, because the 
threads seem to be messed up?



-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

I'm running F9 x86_64 and F8 i386 on x86_64 hardware, should this matter.

/The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./





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