After actually looking at it, it needs a unique application id and profile to be set. So something like this may work better.... sudo firefox -a root -ProfileManager Then create the profile for the root user. Then in the future just select it to run. Start you normal firefox instance normally On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:10 PM, michael greenly <mgreenly at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -- Michael Greenly http://blog.michaelgreenly.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080314/481d7b5a/attachment.htm