FIREFOX PROFILES ISSUE

[joflight]

Hey, does anybody know what to do when Firefox starts and it keeps asking to select a user profile,but then when you select one (or create one) it says that it can not open becausse it's currently in use. Is there a way to disable that so it just opens, period. I just got it installed and it's giving me this profile thing. I'm a Linux Newbie, and this is just frustrating me. Any help from anybody.[/b]

[kkubasik]

WHOA like the bold, are you double clicking/opening 2 firefox windows at the same time? that can cause profile problems, some distros default were it only takes 1 click to open something (a departure from M$) if you open 2 instanced of firefox then you will have odd profile problems.

[joflight]

Right now I don't have any instances of Firefox running, and when I click to get one up, it gives me the profile thing.

[joflight]

Right now I don't have any instances of Firefox running, and when I click to get one up, it gives me the profile thing. [/quote]

[stathisx]

i can't understand why it says you to choose profile.i had the same problem when i tried to open 2 firefox windows.so firstly check with ps -elf|grep firefox if it is running and if not check the options in firefox..

[joflight]

yeah, the output of that command was this:
ps -elf|grep firefox
0 S root 4322 4265 0 77 0 - 1159 pipe_w 16:23 pts/2 00:00:00 grep firefox

any idea what that means?

[kkubasik]

it means that firefox is running..it looks like as root.... odd, but if you create 2 profiles, the just use the one that doesnt give you the error.

[monkey8]

yeah, the output of that command was this:
ps -elf|grep firefox
0 S root 4322 4265 0 77 0 - 1159 pipe_w 16:23 pts/2 00:00:00 grep firefox

any idea what that means?[/size]

First of all, use normal font size, or else it's too hard to help. That looks like you found grep running, with the parameter firefox.

1) install as root
2)logout of root
3)run firefox as a normal user
4)first run may ask about creating a profile I don't know.
5)If you just run "firefox" multiple times it will popup about your profile. You can have multiple windows, just do it within firefox.

[stathisx]

i think that when it shows you the profile to choose there is an option that says not to load profile at start-up..i click it when i opened 2 ff windows and it doesn;t appear anymore...

[zba78]

try runing the command

firefox -a firefox -remote "openURL(about:blank , new-window)"

and let us know what you get. We may beable to take things further from there...