On Tuesday 25 March 2008 21:00, Robert Hailey wrote: > > On Mar 25, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > - If the default profile is NOT running when we load our copy of > > firefox with > > our custom profile, when the link to firefox is clicked on, it > > coalesces with > > our copy and opens a new window using our profile and not the default > > profile. Therefore, it appears that the user's firefox has been > > damaged and > > we've deleted all their bookmarks etc etc. > > [...] > > Anyone got any better ideas? > > Perhaps we can launch firefox in such a way that it does not respond > to "mozilla-xremote-client" calls? I doubt that would be an option in > the profile, but... you never know. > > Since it's obviously a feature, maybe there is a way to disable/monkey- > wrench it (e.g. an environment variable/lock file).
There is no documented command line option. We could change the home directory but the best way to do that is to create another user, which would have to be capable of running GUI apps ... and that really sucks especially on Windows. > > Shipping firefox portable would work for only one platform, no? Possibly. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080325/41f82113/attachment.pgp>
