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2004-12-20 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbear... that you can only have one home directory?
It used to be that Unix programs got your configuration files from whatever directory was set as the value of the environment variable $HOME. This let you have multiple logins with different home directories, shells, or what-have-you. For example, I usually have two home directories, one on my desktop machine and one on the fileserver. Both logins have the same numeric user ID.
Now, however, there are a lot of programs (Java comes to mind, but Firefox has the same problem, which it apparently shares with everything in Gnome) that look up your userID in /etc/passwd and go to the first home directory they find. STUPID! Actually, Firefox isn't consistent: it finds your profile using $HOME, but your .gtkrc-2.0 file by userID. IDIOTS!
It used to be that Unix programs got your configuration files from whatever directory was set as the value of the environment variable $HOME. This let you have multiple logins with different home directories, shells, or what-have-you. For example, I usually have two home directories, one on my desktop machine and one on the fileserver. Both logins have the same numeric user ID.
Now, however, there are a lot of programs (Java comes to mind, but Firefox has the same problem, which it apparently shares with everything in Gnome) that look up your userID in /etc/passwd and go to the first home directory they find. STUPID! Actually, Firefox isn't consistent: it finds your profile using $HOME, but your .gtkrc-2.0 file by userID. IDIOTS!
off topic, sort of...
Date: 2004-12-20 10:16 pm (UTC)Mozilla, when I first started using it, had options to "undo close tab", which was handy, and "save all tabs" before closing the browser, which was even handier. Firefox doesn't seem to have them. I can't find an extension that says it does, and I don't wanna just go adding all the extensions I find until it appears. Do you know of one?
Re: off topic, sort of...
Date: 2004-12-21 12:04 am (UTC)You probably also want "Plain Text Links" and either "Deepest Sender" (LJ client) or "JustBlogIt" (supports many different blogging APIs).
Re: off topic, sort of...
Date: 2004-12-21 01:27 am (UTC)Thanks. :)
Re: off topic, sort of...
Date: 2004-12-21 03:58 am (UTC)Turns out it's here in http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions -- don't know why Mozilla Update doesn't have it.
Re: off topic, sort of...
Date: 2004-12-21 07:08 am (UTC)