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crazypigeon
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Changing the Name of the Executabe for Portable Firefox

OK, so with my drive, I go on many computers, and many of those are already running programs, Firefox is the main one. My Mom gets doesn't like it whenever I go on her computer and mess with her Firefox, and since I carry my drive around everywhere so that I can change the keyboard layouts with little effort (I use dvorak), I figured I could just run my own version of Firefox whenever I go on her computer, the problem is, that since the executables are named the same on my flash drive, and my moms HD, firefox won't launch, how would I go about modifying the launcher to do this?

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Do you try to open your Fx

Do you try to open your Fx while hers is running?

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yes, that is what I would

yes, that is what I would rather do, then have to close hers to run mine with all of my bookmarks and such.

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You shouldn't. It would

You shouldn't. It would confuse the hell out of hers and you'd probably end up doing some damage. John has more information on this.

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Wouldn't it, that if I were

Wouldn't it, that if I were just to have the portable launcher launch the file F:/Apps/Portable Firefox/app/firefox2portable.exe, since the launcher calls its own settings file, wouldn't I have my own session, and my moms would stay intact?

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Try This

https://portableapps.com/node/3547#comment-16306

I agree though that I would think it's not the best idea.

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