Firefox-2

[Pete]

Thank you so much for this! Now I can actually try FF3 without blowing my
profile away!

thx again-
Pete

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:03 PM, lanzen <lanzenesi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 May 2008 20:49:41 Paul S wrote:
>
> > > I managed to set up two launchers for ff2 and ff3 so that each opens
> only
> > > it's dedicated mozilla profile.This way I take advantage of both.
> >
> > Please share more .. I'd be interested in that too.
>
> Sure. It has to do with firefox profilemanager and the capability to have
> different profiles. You can start that with the command line:
> firefox --profilemanager      (firefox 3)
> firefox-2 --profilemanager   (firefox 2)
>
> Let's say I've called the first one "profile4ff3" and the other
> one "profile4ff2", I've then created two launchers, they can be on the
> desktop, in the menu or wherever that is possible.
>
> Launcher for FF3:
> Name: Firefox 3
> Command:  firefox -profile /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/profile4ff3
>
> Launcher for FF2:
> Name: Firefox 2
> Command:  firefox-2 -profile /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/profile4ff2
>
> I have also changed one of the icons so that they can be identified more
> easily.
>
> The reason I have done this is because FF3 used to make a mess of my
> extention
> when used with the FF2 profile.
>
> I did already talked about this from
> Message-Id: <200805022001.50124.lanzenesi at gmail.com>
> onwards.
>
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