On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Jon Schewe wrote:

> I've noticed something very odd with firefox recently.  The VPN that my 
> company uses is started from a website and since it's a VPN this needs 
> to run as root.  So when I login, I start up an xterm (or 
> gnome-terminal) and then execute "sux" to be able to execute X things as 
> root.  I then start firefox from that window and the VPN comes up just 
> fine.  The odd behavior is that now when I start up another firefox 
> window using my regular user account, the new firefox window attaches 
> itself to the existing one that is running as root, rather than starting 
> a whole new process.  Does anyone know how to prevent this?

Not sure.  Does this work?...

firefox.exe -new-window <url>

Reference:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments,

Mike