linux firefox

Tino Engel elrap at web.de
Tue Nov 13 14:17:54 PST 2007


Andrew Pantyukhin schrieb:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:38:22AM +0000, Tino Engel wrote:
>   
>> Dear FreeBSD folks,
>>
>> I have a weird problem:
>>
>> linux-firefox and linux-firefox-devel behave the same way.
>> When I quit them, and try to restart them, they complain about beeing 
>> already running.
>>
>> I have to manually delete
>>
>> /usr/compat/linux/root/.mozilla/firefox/*.prpfile/lock
>> /usr/compat/linux/root/.mozilla/firefox/*.profile/.parentlock
>>
>> to be able to start them again.
>>
>> Normal firefox and firefox-devel do not behave this way, but I want to be 
>> able to use the linux-flashplugin.
>>
>> Any hints? (Apart from writing a wrapper removing the lockfiles... How 
>> ugly)
>>     
>
> - Never run Firefox under root. Please tell if it doesn't help
>   
I do not have another account
>   you.
> - CC maintainer of the port when its not working (run "make
>   maintainer" to get his address).
>   
Will be done
> - Don't start new threads on mailing-lists by hitting the "reply"
>   button. Users of sane user agents will see your new question as
>   part of some old discussion and have a good chance to miss it.
>   
Okay, recognized, I'll NEVER do so again....
Cheers, Tino



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