Tuesday, March 10

Setting Up FF2 and FF3 on Same Machine

I have Firefox 3 installed and I wanted to set up Firefox 2 for testing, so here's the process (quick and easy for XP):

  1. Downloaded Firefox 2 and install it into a folder named "Mozilla Firefox 2"
    don't add any shortcuts (might overwrite your ff3 stuff)
  2. Open the command line and run:
    C:\Documents and Settings\admin>"\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 2\firefox.exe" -profilemanager
  3. Create a new profile, I called it "ff2" and open using that
    the new profile will not have any of your bookmarks or add-ons, which is cool for testing
  4. Now to create the shortcuts
    1. Go to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs
    2. Create a new folder named "Mozilla Firefox 2"
    3. Copy the contents of your former Mozilla Firefox Folder into the new folder
    4. Right click and edit the properties like so:
      Target: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 2\firefox.exe" -P ff2
      Start in: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 2"

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