While I agree that you should give your wife her own login and/or X session,
it *is* possible to run two instances of firefox on the same display and
on the same machine.
Start the second Firefox instance with a different user profile.
$ firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager
(Yes, one switch is hyphenated-lowercase and the other is CapsJammedTogether.
Hooray for consistency!)
On 6/1/09, Allen Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Tim Bolz wrote,
> >>My wife and I have have been sharing my main computer. Sometime she
> >>needs to use it and I get on the other computer. However this can be
> >>a problem. I use NXmachine to log into my box which she is on. The
> >>problem is if she is using firefox. I can't open it up because
> >>another instance of firefox is running. I would like to set her up
> >>with own user account but she uses kmail on my account. I know there
> >>is a way to set her up so she can read and write to my folder but be
> >>in her own directory. On occasion she has to be in windows and all
> >>she does is complain. She's familiar with Ubuntu and where everything
> >>is. My last post was about time on X. She says I spend a lot of time
> >>on the computer and I would like to see how much. If I make her own
> >>account she can make it her own look and feel. She doesn't like it
> >>when I change things. I think it will be easier on her too.
> >
> > I definitely recommend creating an account for her. That will cure the
> > Firefox problem and the not liking it when you change the settings
> > problem.
> >
> > I don't often use Ubuntu, but I would be surprised if there isn't a nice
> > friendly GUI for creating users. If you can't find it, open a terminal
> > window, "sudo -s", and read "man adduser".
>
>
> Menu: System/"Users and Groups"
>
> It's very easy to use.
>
> [cut]
> > - Neil Parker
>
> I agree wholeheartedly that she should have her own login.
>
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