Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-11 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2005-05-10, Bill Marcum penned: I sometimes wonder, does anybody really use profiles in Firefox? I've had situations where I wanted to be able to run using two different proxy configurations. The only way I found to do this was using multiple profiles. -- monique Ask smart questions,

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-11 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 17:56, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: I've had situations where I wanted to be able to run using two different proxy configurations. The only way I found to do this was using multiple profiles. FWIW, you can do this in Konqueror by setting it to use the usual environment

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-11 Thread Colin Ingram
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2005-05-10, Bill Marcum penned: I sometimes wonder, does anybody really use profiles in Firefox? I've had situations where I wanted to be able to run using two different proxy configurations. The only way I found to do this was using multiple profiles. Try

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Monique Y. Mudama, On 2005-05-10, Bill Marcum penned: I sometimes wonder, does anybody really use profiles in Firefox? I've had situations where I wanted to be able to run using two different proxy configurations. The only way I found to do this was using multiple

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-11 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2005-05-11, Colin Ingram penned: Monique Y. Mudama wrote: I've had situations where I wanted to be able to run using two different proxy configurations. The only way I found to do this was using multiple profiles. Try the switchproxy extension http://www.roundtwo.com/product/switchproxy

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-11 Thread Robert Vangel
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: It would be nice if they'd implement it so that you could specify certain proxies to always be used with certain domains. PAC files? http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html#dnsDomainIs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-10 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 08:37:28AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:03:03PM +0530, Deboo Geek wrote: I changed the username of a user with the usermod command and also changed the home dir name to the new username, as well as any permissions etc. Now when I run

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-10 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 01:51, Bill Marcum wrote: You might also try killall firefox-bin. I sometimes wonder, does anybody really use profiles in Firefox? Personally, I think profiles have no place in a webbrowser that runs within a user's own unix account. But who am I to argue? ;) -- Lee.

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-10 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/11/05, Lee Braiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 10 May 2005 01:51, Bill Marcum wrote: You might also try killall firefox-bin. I sometimes wonder, does anybody really use profiles in Firefox? Personally, I think profiles have no place in a webbrowser that runs within a user's

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-10 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 20:10, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/11/05, Lee Braiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I think profiles have no place in a webbrowser that runs within a user's own unix account. But who am I to argue? ;) I guess that since Bill thought personally, he also sent the email

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-08 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:03:03PM +0530, Deboo Geek wrote: I changed the username of a user with the usermod command and also changed the home dir name to the new username, as well as any permissions etc. Now when I run firefox, it asks me to select one of the listed profiles but if I select

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/8/05, Stephen R Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:03:03PM +0530, Deboo Geek wrote: I changed the username of a user with the usermod command and also changed the home dir name to the new username, as well as any permissions etc. Now when I run firefox, it asks

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-08 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:13:45PM +0530, Deboo Geek wrote: Strange, but there's no lock file/dir under the profile dir. And none under /var/lock too. Does it have some other name? Hm. Looks like my guess failed. But I thought the way in which Firefox detected that a profile was in use was

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-08 Thread Wim De Smet
On 5/8/05, Deboo Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I changed the username of a user with the usermod command and also changed the home dir name to the new username, as well as any permissions etc. Now when I run firefox, it asks me to select one of the listed profiles but if I select any of the