I think you need to force it to use two different profiles.  I think
something like this will give you what you want

> sudo firefox -CreateProfile root

Then

> sudo firefox -a root
> firefox


On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote:
> > 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>
> >
> >
> That creates a new window, which is what I already get, but there is
> still only 1 process owned by root.
>
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