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  1. Bug #26040
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 26040

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In , Mike Hommey (mh-glandium) wrote : Re: Bug#352809: start remote instance, not a new local window

tag 352809 security
severity 352809 normal
merge 229547 352809
thanks

This is known long standing bug.
The problem with disabling this "feature" by default is that you then
get a firefox process each time you open an url from other programs.
OTOH, when you launch several times epiphany or nautilus, you only get
one instance... except that if you launch it from another account or
another host, you don't use the current instance.
Anyways, in the current state of the firefox code, it's not safe to
disable it by default, there's a huge possibility of loss of data in the
profile.
That's the problem with applications developed by people coming from the
windows world...

Mike