[3455] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Mozilla multiple instances
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Thomas)
Fri Sep 6 16:39:05 2002
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 16:39:08 -0400
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Cc: Oliver Thomas <othomas@mit.edu>, Todd Belton <tbelton@mit.edu>,
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To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
From: Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
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I tend to agree with Bill on this. The failure mode is such that users
can get into serious trouble while trying to do the right thing, and few
of the other environments they might come from require them to quit apps
before logging out.
Is there anything like a system .logout that gets called when
session_gate exits? Or does it just source ~/.logout? Seems like that
would be the right place to look for and terminate a running mozilla
process. That's the way most other os's seem to do it.
oliver
On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 04:24 PM, William Cattey wrote:
>
> 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
>
