well, previously, I issued the command: firefox -p while on instance
of FF was running.
just now while an instance of FF is running, I issued firefox -p -no-
remote
same outcome: it simply launches a new instance of FF...

On Mar 31, 11:52 pm, dmccunney <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:34 PM, knowledgenotebook
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Odd, firefox -p launched Firefox instead of bringing up the Profile
> > Manager, what now?
>
> If Firefox is already running, "firefox -p" will simply switch to the
> running instance.  To bring up the Profile Manager, Firefox must not
> be running, or you must use the -no-remote option, which will let you
> start another instance while one already exists.  If you do that, you
> *can't* use the same profile for the second instance - the first
> instance will lock it.  But you *can* have multiple copies of Firefox
> active at once using different profiles.
> _____
> Dennis

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