Firefox versions

[Manuel Nogales]

2008/12/2 Neil Winchurst <barnaby at drofle.com>

> Donn wrote:
> >> I also have v3 in the repositories. Is it possible to have both versions
> >> installed at the same time and to choose which one to run?
>
> > Yes. I installed 3 manually (downloaded from mozilla) and run it from my
> ~/bin
> > directory. I made an icon for it with this command in it:
> > /home/donn/bin/firefox/firefox -no-remote
> >
> Perhaps when you installed it manually you could choose where to install
> the file and place them somewhere other than the usual. I am wondering
> if, by installing v3 via Adept, I would be overwriting some of the v2
> files.


 You can install both version without problems, only that to run firefox v2
you have to use firefox2-bin instead of firefox. I have this set up in
Kubuntu 8.04.

>
>
>
>
> > I also have profiles working and made a FF3 profile so I can now run FF2
> and
> > FF3 at the same time. You will have to fiddle with profile a little,
> they're
> > odd.
> >
> > To get the profile screen, run :
> > firefox -a blah
> >
> > Use 'blah' to get it to ask what profile you want. You can use any
> > gobbeldygook as long as it's not a profile in the list.
> >
> > hth
> > \d
> >
>
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Manuel Nogales Tejado
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