Interesting Firefox Behavior

[Maikeru-sama]

I have FireFox 3 and FireFox 4 installed on my PC because some of my favorite plugins don't work in FireFox 4.

If I open up a FireFox 4 browser and then open up a FireFox 3 browser, it will give me a FireFox 4 browswer and vice versa.

Of course, if you open just one version, without the other being open, it will choose the correct version.

Just thought that was kind of strange from a Developer's perspective.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I have FireFox 3 and FireFox 4 installed on my PC because some of my favorite plugins don't work in FireFox 4.

If I open up a FireFox 4 browser and then open up a FireFox 3 browser, it will give me a FireFox 4 browswer and vice versa.

Of course, if you open just one version, without the other being open, it will choose the correct version.

Just thought that was kind of strange from a Developer's perspective.

You have to evoke it with the -no-remote and a specific profile.

I know this because our QA department tests with many versions of FF. Our financial trading platform is an AJAX app.

Open the profile manager.

firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote

Create a new profile for say FF4 then close the manager and create a new shortcut for FF4 and for FF3 that looks like the following. Make sure the profile name doesn't have spaces in it and I would make it all lower case.

"C:\program files\Firefox\firefox.exe" -P <profilename> -no-remote

"C:\program files\Firefox4\firefox.exe" -P <profilename> -no-remote

Once you have the two shortcuts, click on the FF3 and it will open, then click on FF4 and it will open.

 

[hairic]

You have to evoke it with the -no-remote and a specific profile.

I know this because our QA department tests with many versions of FF. Our financial trading platform is an AJAX app.

Open the profile manager.

firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote

Create a new profile for say FF4 then close the manager and create a new shortcut for FF4 and for FF3 that looks like the following. Make sure the profile name doesn't have spaces in it and I would make it all lower case.

"C:\program files\Firefox\firefox.exe" -P <profilename> -no-remote

"C:\program files\Firefox4\firefox.exe" -P <profilename> -no-remote

Once you have the two shortcuts, click on the FF3 and it will open, then click on FF4 and it will open.

I do that. I use it with virtual desktops since I don't like more than 5 windows open at a time. Currently have eight instances of firefox running on 20 desktops (only using 10).

 

[Maikeru-sama]

Thanks nyc.

 

[hairic]

I do that. I use it with virtual desktops since I don't like more than 5 windows open at a time. Currently have eight instances of firefox running on 20 desktops (only using 10).

Just noticed your post defeated the quote truncator there.

How to: Use multiple code tags and if you're quoted it won't be shrunk?

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Longish post here:

The app I use as my virtual desktop manager is virtuawin. Linked here: http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/downloads.php I just use and set hotkeys to keep track not any mouse stuff, and start using one desktop at a time and add as I go.

Desktop 1: Everything/idling/wasting time (the browser instance I'm posting from is here)
Desktop 2: News Reading
Desktop 3: Gaming
Desktop 4: Pornography
Desktop 5: Web Dev / programming
Desktop 6: Ebook reader / studying / nerd time.
Desktop 7: Video Editing
Desktop 8: File Manager
Desktop 9: Journal/note taking.
Desktop 10: Email, IM, todo, calendar, etc/aka google apps.
Desktop 11-20: Unset.

And a site I currently have open: http://www.utwired.engr.utexas.edu/rgd1/

Just noticed your post defeated the quote truncator there.

How to: Use multiple code tags and if you're quoted it won't be shrunk?

test

test text

test

test test

test text

Longish post here:

The app I use as my virtual desktop manager is virtuawin. Linked here: http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/downloads.php I just use and set hotkeys to keep track not any mouse stuff, and start using one desktop at a time and add as I go.

Ended up with:
Desktop 1: Everything/idling/wasting time (the browser instance I'm posting from is here)
Desktop 2: News Reading
Desktop 3: Gaming
Desktop 4: Porn
Desktop 5: Web Dev / programming
Desktop 6: Ebook reader / studying / nerd time.
Desktop 7: Video Editing
Desktop 8: File Manager
Desktop 9: Journal/note taking.
Desktop 10: Email, IM, todo, calendar, etc/aka google apps.
Desktop 11-20: Unset.

And a site I currently have open: http://www.utwired.engr.utexas.edu/rgd1/

Testing the quote... success. It's the two code tags right after another that breaks it, I think. Could try other tags, but 0 cares at this point.