Stuart Ballard wrote:
> Since I
> started using Mozilla mail/news I've had at least 4 or 5 instances where
> I'd spent tens of minutes filling in information into a web form only to
> have the whole thing crash because new mail came in!
For me, it's usually the browser which crashes and takes the Mailnews
client with a new email down with it.
> I'd gladly pay the
> cost of having mozilla resident in memory *twice* if it would mean not
> having *everything* crash.
You can do the following:
Create 2 profiles, one for the browser, one for Mailnews. Start Mozilla
once with the browser profile and once (maybe using ./mozila -mail or
via the "Start Mailnews at startup pref") with the Mailnews profile. You
have two instances of Mozilla, one browser and one Mailnews client.
Neither of them should interfere with each other.
Of course, you will have the same problems you have, if you use 2
independant browser / mail/news apps: Clicking on a link in Mailnews
won't provide the desired result. Dragging the link should work, though.
Note: This only works on Unix, I think, because the Windows (and Mac?)
versionash have a "feature" which prevents 2 Mozilla instances at the
same time, no matter which profiles they use. There's a bug about
removing/improving it.
