[ale] tools: Mozilla & mail

[Jim Philips]

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On Saturday 20 September 2003 11:29 am, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> On Saturday 20 September 2003 08:27 am, Jim Philips wrote:
> | The second problem is clicking on a URL inside an e-mail. If you have
> | your windowing environment configured to call Mozilla and Mozilla is
> | already open, you're screwed, because Mozilla won't open two instances
> | under the same user profile.
>
> Now I am confused.  I have been doing this with kmail for at least
> the past year. I keep Mozilla running in the background and have
> had no trouble clicking on a link in an email and having a fresh
> Mozilla window pop up -- without the tabs of the already running
> window.
>
> I have absolutely no idea what I might be doing differently from
> Jim, but I know I am not using any sort of bash script because I
> don't have a clue how to do that.

I don't know the answer, unless you installed an RPM of Mozilla and they 
altered its default behavior. But in my experience, if you have Mozilla 
running and try to start a new instance, it will ask you for the profile and 
you can't use the profile that is already running. This was done to Mozilla 
some time back as a fix to a security hole. 
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