Description of problem: If I have firefox running in a VNC session, I cannot start firefox in my normal X session, and vice versa. In either case I get the dialogue box which says: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-3.0-1.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start a VNC session on your machine, and in that session start firefox 2.In a normal (console) X session, try and start firefox - it doesn't start. 3. Actual results: No firefox Expected results: A new instance of firefox starting in each session Additional info:
Unfortunately, this is not bug, but a feature. I may not like it but it doesn't help me. The workaround is to use -no-remote parameter of running firefox. If you think it is wrong, file bug upstream (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org), but unfortunately we cannot fix it here.