Problem opening two windows of firefox in ubuntu 8.04

[Derrick Austin]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

In Ubuntu 8.04, I receive the error "Firefox is already open but not responding." often when I trying to open two windows of Firefox.

I have noticed that this problem does not occur if I configure my xorg.conf to:

Option "xinerama" "true"

Which makes my two screens act as one big screen.

Strangely enough, even when I switch to a different workstation to open the second firefox window, I can not replicate the problem unless I do not have "Option "xinerama" "true"" off in my xorg.conf.

When this option is off, my two screens act as two separate desktops, and I could see this being a problem. However, if this was the reason for the problem, I believe it should also happen when I switch to a different workstation and open a new firefox window.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 12 10:54:07 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 04:01:31PM -0000, Derrick Austin wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> In Ubuntu 8.04, I receive the error "Firefox is already open but not
> responding." often when I trying to open two windows of Firefox.
>
> I have noticed that this problem does not occur if I configure my
> xorg.conf to:
>
> Option "xinerama" "true"
>
> Which makes my two screens act as one big screen.
>
> Strangely enough, even when I switch to a different workstation to open
> the second firefox window, I can not replicate the problem unless I do
> not have "Option "xinerama" "true"" off in my xorg.conf.
>
> When this option is off, my two screens act as two separate desktops,
> and I could see this being a problem. However, if this was the reason
> for the problem, I believe it should also happen when I switch to a
> different workstation and open a new firefox window.
>

Accessing the same profile by two running ffox'es at the same time is
not supported as otherwise data-corruption would be too hard to
prevent.

 status invalid

 - Alexander

[Derrick Austin (austinderrick2)]

Well it opens two windows with no trouble with xinerama on.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 07:51:17PM -0000, Derrick Austin wrote:
> Well it opens two windows with no trouble with xinerama on.
>

Yes, but those are on the same screen then ... so its technically one
instance.

 - Alexander