I think you need to force it to use two different profiles. I think something like this will give you what you want > sudo firefox -CreateProfile root Then > sudo firefox -a root > firefox On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote: > Mike Miller wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Jon Schewe wrote: > > > > > >> I've noticed something very odd with firefox recently. The VPN that my > >> company uses is started from a website and since it's a VPN this needs > >> to run as root. So when I login, I start up an xterm (or > >> gnome-terminal) and then execute "sux" to be able to execute X things > as > >> root. I then start firefox from that window and the VPN comes up just > >> fine. The odd behavior is that now when I start up another firefox > >> window using my regular user account, the new firefox window attaches > >> itself to the existing one that is running as root, rather than > starting > >> a whole new process. Does anyone know how to prevent this? > >> > > > > Not sure. Does this work?... > > > > firefox.exe -new-window <url> > > > > > That creates a new window, which is what I already get, but there is > still only 1 process owned by root. > > -- > Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe <http://mtu.net/%7Ejpschewe> > If you see an attachment named signature.asc, this is my digital > signature. > See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. > > For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels > nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any > powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all > creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that > is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Michael Greenly http://blog.michaelgreenly.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080314/ca64c540/attachment.htm