[3453] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Mozilla multiple instances
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Fri Sep 6 16:23:20 2002
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 16:24:01 -0400
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Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu
To: Todd Belton <tbelton@mit.edu>
From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 04:16 PM, Todd Belton wrote:
> But with the "stale lockfile for different IP" situation the worst that
> happens is some people get shown the Profile Manager when they aren't
> expecting it. And though the dialog is cryptic to some people, it
> actually does what it is supposed to do and won't let someone use a
> profile that is in use. So how vital is it to sweep up Mozilla's trash
> in this particular case?
I am concerned that the vast majority of Athena users logout without
consistently killing their browser, and that olc is gonna be swamped by
calls from people saying, "I used Mozilla yesterday, and now it doesn't
show me my web pages. It asks me something about a profile." When all
that's happening is that they logged out without shutting down Mozilla
from the Athena workstation next door.
Remember, to most users this stuff is all magic, they expect it to clean
itself up no matter how ungracefully stuff is shut down. They have no
concept when logging out is or is not an ok way to quit a program. And
they DONT use the same machine every day like we do.
-wdc
