On my Red Hat 8 machine, somehow, and I now can't remember, but I was able to have Mozilla running, click the icon and start another instance without seeing that STUPID profile manager. Also, then, when I clicked on a URL link from within Ximian Evolution it would just happily start a new instance of Mozilla for that link just clicked.

Well, today I upgraded to Mozilla 1.6 and now, of course, I am back to the age old problem of the STUPID Mozilla Profile Manager. I thought I had posted how I was able to solve the issue previously but I can' find it. I looked over at justlinux also, to no avail.
I'm missing some parameter in the Icon preferences or something. Crap, I wish I had reviewed that before I upgraded.

It is very frustrating now to click on a link in an email and not be able to start a new instance of Mozilla.

Also, I know that there is the argument that more than one instance of Mozilla uses more resources and to just click on File/New Window or New Tab, but that does not in any way help with launching a URL from an email. I screwed around with the /usr/bin/gnome-default-applications-whatever file but that also produced that STUPID profile manager when I clicked on the link.

Thanks for any help to get me back...

Bro - I don't know if this will help, as I haven't tried it with Evolution, but if you right click on the Mozilla desktop icon, then append the flag: -p <profilename> that might avoid the incredibly annoying stupidity we all have to suffer with. More (Windows-based) info here: http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4534

Personally, I just
In the Linux world, this might work, more info here: http://nathanael.homelinux.org/downloads/startMozilla


#!/bin/sh
#
# Starting Mozilla
#

PROCESS=mozilla-bin
CHECK=$(ps h -C $PROCESS)

if test -z "$CHECK" ; then
/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla
else
/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla -remote "xfeDoCommand (openBrowser)"
fi

Obviously you might need to tweak the directory names, depending on where Mozilla lives. Good luck with it -- J.W.

BTW - I've learned a lot from your posts, thanks

mine used to open multiple instances b4 i updated to 1.6 also, and it's really annoying not to have that functionality anymore. it didn't use any more resources than one browser on my machine.

i do know that mozilla puts a symlink called "lock" in the ~/.mozilla/default/*.slt/ directory that only allows the one instance. so if there were a way to make a script to get rid of that when mozilla launches, that might work. i haven't figured out how yet b/c i don't know anything about scripting, but maybe that will jar your memory of how you did it. (and then you can tell the rest of us )

shhhhhh.....

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showt...5&pagenumber=1

(The mods over there changed the title of the thread. )