Firefox/Iceweasel now a PITA/POS

[The Small Box Admin]

This is pretty interesting.  You could setup multiple profiles, one
for each machine name and then do something like:

$ firefox -P `hostname`

The downside is that Firefox will still die a miserable death once in
a while and the easiest thing is to delete and recreate the profile to
eliminate the Firefox is already running problem.  Which I see, but
only a few times, also with NFS mounted home directories of users.

Ken

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> 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
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