that it uses as a flag. It is actually a symbolic link to an IP
address - it has no contents. The IP address part is so that it can
tell if you are just relaunching Firefox on the same Mac (say after a
crash) in which case it will launch without problem, or if you are
trying to launch a 2nd instance of Firefox that is using the same
network mounted home directory on a different Mac and it will complain.
Tom "Macintosh Doctor" Johnson
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On Nov 6, 2009, at 12:06, Karl Kuehn wrote:
On Nov 6, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Lynne Pariseau wrote:
10.4.11 server, WGM, 10.4.11 clients -- I was going to switch from
Safari to Firefox as my main browser. I think someone mentioned
this issue before -- when I try to launch firefox on 2 computers or
for the 2nd time on the same computer, I get the message "a copy of
firefox is already open....." any ideas on the solution to this
problem?
Are you using network home directories and having everyone log in
with the same user? If so, then this is expected behavior. Firefox
is trying to save you form the problems that can occur when multiple
processes try to write to the same files at the same time. Firefox
is not the problem, it is just warning you not to do something you
should already not be doing.
Either use local home directories, or separate accounts (for each
computer if not for each user). There are undoubtably better
solutions to the problems you are trying to solve by having everyone
log into the same user.
--
Karl Kuehn
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