419053 - Problems with running firefox on more computers and one x server

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Martin Filo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sk; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080212 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sk; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080212 Firefox/2.0.0.12

When I try run firefox on two computers where both use same x server then, one window mode prevent second firefox to run.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
we need two computers host1, host2
1. run firefox on host1
host1:$ firefox

2. configure display on host2
host2:$ export DISPLAY=host1:0.0

3. run firefox on host2
host2:$ firefox
Actual Results:  
Only firefox from host1 running

Expected Results:  
Firefox from both computers will be running. I expect that one window feature will not prevent to run firefox on other computers.

workaround: disabling one window feature

Comment 1

[Martin Filo]

update:

When I run firefox on second host (with one window feature disabled) then firefox is ran on first host.

for example:
host1:$ firefox
host2:$ firefox
runs two firefoxs on host1

host2:$ firefox
host1:$ firefox
runs two firefoxs on host2

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

That's no bug, it's by design. It's because you can't have multiple profiles open on the same screen at the same time.

workaround: set the environment variable MOZ_NO_REMOTE to 1 before you start Firefox, or start Firefox with the -no-remote commandline parameter. Then it will not check if another Firefox is running on the same screen. You don't need to set it for the first copy (although it doesn't hurt), but it needs to be set for all other ones.