On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:47:29PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: | Now, what's finally got to me one too many times: | * I run firebird then can't run mozilla. | * I run mozilla then can't run firebird.
I've also noticed this. A quick look at the BTS shows that someone has already filed a bug on it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216264 Apparently it has been fixed upstream. | And shouldn't we have stable executable names? The executable names are fine, as far as I can see (mozilla => Mozilla, mozilla-firebird => Mozilla Firebird). Is the strange behaviour above perhaps confusing you? | If I'm running an app, shouldn't I be able to run additional instances | of that app???!!?? AFAIK you can't in the case of Mozilla. When you run mozilla while a copy of mozilla is already running, it will start a new window if it can; if it can't (e.g. the second instance of Mozilla is on a different X display) it will try to con you into creating a new profile. Openoffice displays even weirder behaviour wrt to multiple instances, actually ... perhaps I should file a bug on that one. Cameron.