Firefox/Iceweasel now a PITA/POS

[Vu Pham]

On 03/11/2010 07:36 AM, David A. Bandel wrote:
> Folks,
>
> What web browsers is everyone using?  I ask this because
> Firefox/Iceweasel 3.x has become such a major POS I'm looking at
> ripping it out.
>
> Situations:
> Home:  several systems (OK 5 computers, one per) with 4 having /home
> NFS mounted.  Finally had to create a /var/home/$USER directory and
> move then link from the primary home to stop getting the "Firefox is
> already running ... close FF or reboot" nonsense.  Still running into
> the occasional screams of "I don't have Internet" (meaning FF won't
> open, often not even giving the FF is running dialog, just flat not
> running which usually means cleaning out /tmp).
>
> School:  here all systems are dumb terminals running off the server.
> All is well for the older students that have their own logins, but the
> Kinder through 2d grade that use the same guest account (although
> guest is pointed to /var/home/guest which is on a separate RAMdisk
> filesystem in the dumb terminals) get the "FF is running ... " crap
> for all but the first guest.
>
> This is the _ONLY_ program giving me migranes and I just need FF to go
> away (and take my migranes with it).
>
> Suggestions?

Have you tried firefox -p some_profile_name ? I guess you can use the 
MAC address as profile name ?

I have not used MAC address as profile name, but I have used -p to allow 
me to open remote firefox on my local X. Something like "ssh -Y 
vu at mydesktop "firefox -p vu_on_notebook_1". Without that -p, I have the 
error "Firefox is already running, but is not responding".


Vu