I have a pretty hacky workaround for this. It seems to be working fine initially, but I'm guessing this will break something eventually. BACK UP YOUR PROFILE BEFORE TRYING THIS
cd ~/.mozilla/firefox mkdir screen1 mkdir screen2 # for bash shopt -s dotglob # for zsh setopt GLOB_DOTS cd screen1 ln -s ../<YOUR PROFILE>/* . rm .parentlock cd ../screen2 ln -s ../<YOUR PROFILE>/* . rm .parentlock >From a terminal on screen 1... firefox -P screen1 -new-instance >From a terminal on screen 2... firefox -P screen2 -new-instance Again, USE WITH CAUTION AND MAKE BACKUPS FIRST -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/78538 Title: Feature Request: Allow Firefox to work on multiple X11 screens Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “firefox-3.0” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox This is a feature request bug. The ability to use Firefox on a multi-screen configuration would be useful. However, it is not possible at this time (at least with a single profile). This is also the case for multiple X servers, not just screens. Ideally, Firefox should be able to be run anywhere, at any time. I would imagine that it should be able to avoid clobbering its data files if multiple instances of the browser would be required to address this issue, but I would also think that it would be possible to have a single Firefox instance "connected" to multiple X11 DISPLAYs (e.g., :0.0, :0.1, or even :0.0 and :1.0) for the same user. Evince (in Feisty) appears to have this feature, and there are other programs that are multi-screen friendly. Is it possible to make Firefox one of them? Thanks! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/78538/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
