[wplug] Firebird and Java

[Sean McCune]

I've noticed this problem on linux, but I haven't dug into yet.  Lets
say I start firefox from the command line or menu icon and leave it
running because I want to refer to the page that's up.  Then I run
thunderbird or Evolution to read some mail, and there's URL in an email
that I click on.  It will try and start a new instance of firefox, which
will yield this profile problem.

When I'm forced to do SW development on Windows, I always run WinXP or
Win2K3 in a virtual machine under vmware with a NAT'd network connection
between the VM and the real host OS (linux).  I also install firefox and
thunderbird because I absolutely will not use Outlook and IE for
security reasons.

Under Windows, firefox does not exhibit this problem.  Thunderbird opens
up another firefox instance just fine.  I don't remember mozilla or
galeon exhibiting these problems under linux either.

But, as I said, I haven't delved into it yet.  I've just noted that it
happens to me.

McC


On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 16:53, Jonathan S Billings wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 16:49, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> > > The error you are seeing is because Firebird (now called FireFox, btw)
> > > thinks that you are already running the software.  You might not be, but
> > > it detects a 'lock' file in your profile.  I believe this lock file is
> > > in ~/.phoenix/default/*/lock
> > > 
> > 
> > Is there a way to ask a currently-running version of FireBeast what 
> > profile it's using?  And a profile is just a collection of user settings 
> > like bookmarks, toolbar configurations, cache, and the like, right?
> > 
> > -brandon
> 
> The 'lock' file is usually a symlink to a nonexistant file that looks like:
> 
> <ipaddress>:<process id of running browser>
> for example, mine is:
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 billings users          18 Mar 29 16:44 lock -> 128.2.191.24:30430
> 
> 
> Yes, a profile is basically just what it sounds like, toolbars, user settings,
> local cache, etc.