Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #78538
  2. Comment #87

Comment 87 for bug 78538

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In , Alex Shafer (ashafer01) wrote :

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