Is there a way of preventing multiple instances?

Note that I AM NOT asking about "tab vs. window" behavior when following links, which is what a search on "multiple instances" seems to bring up.
I would just prefer a different behavior when firefox is started from a Windows shortcut. I sometimes forget to glance at the taskbar first, and don't notice that I already have a minimized instance of firefox running, want to browse something, and either doubleclick the desktop icon, or use the start menu. This winds up with two instances of firefox, which I start collecting two separate sets of tabs in, until I notice that I have two of them, usually when I want to refer back to a page I know I opened half an hour ago.
I would prefer a behavior similar to Thunderbird. If it's already running when you start it, it simply unminimizes the running instance. I would even prefer a simple message that simply says "Firefox is already running", similar to some other applications I use.
I realize that there are perfectly valid reasons why many people might want multiple firefox instances, but I don't. I can't find an option for controlling this. If it doesn't exist, I would like to suggest that it should have one.

If it got doubled due to some action, just sort your library by "Date Added," and the extra ones will be together on the time/date of the action, all in a row. Highlight the first that you want to get rid of, hold shift and click the last one. Then delete.

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Hi,
we have integrated the tool with FLEX PLM and we prepares images and uploads to Flex PLM from AI using custom scripts.
when user uploads the first ,it will take more time as AI files will be bit more size.Shows progress bar how much content is uploaded to server.
user cannot work on other image until the first one finishes.
There are three solutions in my mind.
1 : If i can open new instance then i can continue working on new one.
2 : Reducing the AI file.Is there any best way to reduce the AI file size.
3 : Uploading the large file to some location to upload quickly and from there to server.
Can any one help the possibilities in option 1 and 2.
it would be greatly helpful to me if any other idea helps.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
VEnkat

I've moved your question to the Illustrator forum because it appears you're referring to Illustrator instead of InDesign where you originally posted.

I am using Sync to merge all my bookmarks across my computers. One MacBook is set to Dutch language, my work MacBook Pro is set to English language - is there a way to prevent double instances for 'Most viewed' (it's both in Dutch & English)

Sync should kind merge these two automatically. Right? :)

iPhoto is a consumer based software thus very limited, likely to about 10,000 is reasonable before performance starts to degrade as it lumps and loads everything at once.
You sorely need Aperture or Lightroom which has much better support for managing your huge library into managable chunks.
Also you should be looking at using a external hardware based RAID 0 as a working/speed drive in addition to several clones of the data on other drives.
Most commonly used backup methods
something like this on a fast connection, two 7,200 drives working together gives great drive performance.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/RAID/
If your going to be creating addiitonal large amounts of photo's, you likely should be looking at a RAID 5 setup with spare drives.
http://www.macgurus.com/store/ecom-prodshow/QuadRackRAID.html

What is the best way to load multiple instances of a button into master index page?. I have looked a

I have successfully created an animated button that opens to reveal a quotation with a nested clickable link to the source. What I would like to do is have several of these with different quotes inside them, scattered on the page. I have looked at the composition loader available via Edge Commons, and it seems that would require some sort of Edge animate Stage 'frame' to load the instances into? Is there any way to place them directly into the master page - as div elements...?
The outer of the buttons is the same, on hover they open partialy on click fully, to reveal their particular text - which I thought about loading it at runtime with json, or maybe handlebars...?
I would also like to make the buttons only take the necessary space. ie. before they expand they are only buttons. ( I have set the stage to hidden but it still takes up space). To acheive this, I think perhaps I will have to target the inner components css, and set them as display:none until the button is hovered over, then set :hover and :active pseudo classes inside edge. Is this feasible?
Thanks in advance for any ideas/suggestions...

Hello, Thanks for your helpful input. Based on that, and the tutorial 'http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-edge-animate-cc/ingesting-external-data-dc/' - I have written code to drive my button's behaviour. (copied below...)
var textArray =new Array();
var currentHead = 0;
var currentText = 0;
var currentFoot = 0;
var s = sym.getSymbol("textContainer");
sym.$("textContainer")$.("text").html("");
var sh = sym.getSymbol("headContainer");
sym.$("headContainer")$.("head").html("");
var sf = sym.getSymbol("footContainer");
sym.$("footContainer")$.("footer").html("");
$.getJSON("assets/sources1.json", function(data){
          for (var i=0; i<data.length; i++){
                    textArray.push({"head":data[i].heading,
                              "text":data[i].text,
                              "footer":data[i].foot,
                              "link":data[i].link});
          sym.$("headContainer")$.("head").html(textArray[currentHead]).heading;
          sym.$("textContainer")$.("text").html(textArray[currentText]).text;
          sym.$("footContainer")$.("foot").html(textArray[currentFoot]).foot;
          sym.$("footContainer")$.("link").html(textArray[currentLink]).link;
But there is an error I don't understand at line 7...
Also - as you can see, at present I have several symbols in parallel. Would I be better off nesting the text containers inside the outer button container? and would I be better off creating styled mini- pages of text data, and then loading them - instead of loading them as symbols? I have had to create seperate symbols because I cannot adequately stle the text - so some is bold, some is italic etc. within one text field. Or can I? I guess I could nest several text fields inside one symbol...?
I remain unsure how to load the finished animation button instances. In your example you were still loading into an animation But from yor example, I guess I would need to place all my examples inside an outer edge composition... but then I think positioning them accurately with css, making adjustments etc. will be fairly tricky. Is there any way to place multiple instances directly into divs in index.html? Could I simply repeat the class...? I may be answering my own questions here.

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You can provide feedback to Apple to let them know of any feature improvements you would like to see on the iPhone. Doesn't mean they will provide them, but you never know. Use this link to send the feedback http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Is there a way to create multiple map tile layers at once?

Hello experts,
I have a small problem. It's mainly a matter of saving some time. I need to create 51 map tile layers in mapviewer, and I would like to this this at one time. I can go to the admin console-->Management-->Manage Map Tile Layers-->Create, and then I can create one at a time. But it really would be nice to create them all at once!
I tried using the XML mode interface, and I can use the following code to create one map tile layer:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<map_tile_server_admin_request>
<create_map_tile_layer data_source="xxxx">
    <map_tile_layer
        name="FOUNDATION"
        http_header_expires="168"
        image_format="PNG">
      <internal_map_source base_map="FOUNDATION"/>
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      <coordinate_system
          srid="8265"
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      <zoom_levels levels="10" min_scale="5000" max_scale="10000000">
      </zoom_levels>
    </map_tile_layer>
</create_map_tile_layer>
</map_tile_server_admin_request> And it creates one layer. But when I try this:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<map_tile_server_admin_request>
<create_map_tile_layer data_source="xxxx">
    <map_tile_layer
        name="FOUNDATION"
        http_header_expires="168"
        image_format="PNG">
      <internal_map_source base_map="FOUNDATION"/>
      <tile_storage root_path="/scratch/tilecache" />
      <coordinate_system
          srid="8265"
          minX="-180" maxX="180" minY="-90" maxY="90"/>
      <tile_image width="250" height="250" />
      <zoom_levels levels="10" min_scale="5000" max_scale="10000000">
      </zoom_levels>
    </map_tile_layer>
</create_map_tile_layer>
<create_map_tile_layer data_source="xxxx">
    <map_tile_layer
        name="FOUNDATION_WY"
        http_header_expires="168"
        image_format="PNG">
      <internal_map_source base_map="FOUNDATION_WY"/>
      <tile_storage root_path="/scratch/tilecache" />
      <coordinate_system
          srid="8265"
          minX="-180" maxX="180" minY="-90" maxY="90"/>
      <tile_image width="250" height="250" />
      <zoom_levels levels="10" min_scale="5000" max_scale="10000000">
      </zoom_levels>
    </map_tile_layer>
</create_map_tile_layer>
</map_tile_server_admin_request>...it creates only the first map tile layer in my xml request.
Is there any way to create multiple map tile layers at once?
Thank you!
John

Michael,
It looks like you are right! Thank you for your help.
I still have a small concern. I looked at the documentation and it reads,
"The configuration settings for a cache instance are stored in the USER_SDO_CACHED_MAPS metadata view. You should normally not manipulate this view directly, but should instead use the MapViewer administration tool, which uses this view to configure map cache instances."
But, I tried inserting records into USER_SDO_CACHED_MAPS and it works, and I can't really see any reason not to directly insert records into this table, so...
Perhaps that warning is there simply because potentially you could screw things up tinkering with the table directly.
Cheers!
John

Is there a way to open multiple childs of Accordian at a same time

Hi,
Is there a way to open multiple childs of Accordain at a same time.
My requiremnets is something like this:--
Thanks for any help on this in Advance.
Regards
Munira

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Is there a way to prevent psd from being the default file extension?

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